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BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 
COMMOW GODWIT. GODWYW. YARWHELP. YARWHIP. 
LESSER GODWIT. JADREKA SWIPE. 
RED GODWIT. HUDSOWIAW GODWIT. SHRIEKER. 
Limosa melanura , 
“ JEgocephala, 
“ rufa major , 
Fedoa melanura , 
Scolopax belgica , 
“ JEgocephala, 
u Hudsonica , 
“ limosa , 
“ Lapponica, 
JEgocephahis Bellonii , 
Leisleu. Temminck. 
Fleming. 
Brisson. 
Stephens. 
Gmelin. 
LrNN^us. 
Latham ? 
Pennant. 
Bewick. 
Ray. 
Limosa . Limus —Mud. Melanura. Melas —Black. Our a—A tail. 
This species extends pretty generally, though unequally, 
over Europe—so far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Green¬ 
land, and south again to Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and 
Holland; Asia, to which continent Temminck assigns Japan 
and the Sunda Isles as localities for it, as well as the vicinity 
of Mount Caucasus and Persia; and Africa, about Tangiers, 
Tunis, and other parts of the north. 
It most affects the countries that are nearest to the sea, 
and attaches itself to moist and swampy places, low meadows, 
where a rank vegetation prevails, and other such. 
In England it is generally distributed, though by no means 
abundant. It breeds occasionally, though sparingly, in the 
Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Pens, near Buckenham and Oby; 
so it is also said to have done on the edge of Hatfield 
Chase, near Thorne, Yorkshire. It is common about Breydon, 
near Yarmouth, in Norfolk; it belongs also to the Northum¬ 
brian, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire coasts. In Suffolk, two in 
