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: OF BIRDS pt 
Godwits feldom ftay more than a day or two 
in the fame place; where there has been a great 
~ number the day before, on the next day fcarcely 
one can be found. They are very delicate food, 
and there are feveral of this fpecies, 
ne EE PE PR te 
Genus 48. TRIN CE A; 
The beak is flender, and about the fame length as the head. 
The noftrils linear, or very narrow, 
- Four toes, that behind has only one joint, and’is raifed 
above the ground, 
HE Ruff is one of the Genus Tringa; its 
i & beak and legs are red; the three tail fea- 
thers on each fide are without {pots ; the forehead 
is rough, with reddith warts. 
The Ruffs are very courageous and quarrel- 
fome birds; they fight not only one againft ano- 
: ther, but in regular bodies, one troop fighting 
another, Thofe that fight are males, and they : 
are faid"to be in greater numbers than the females 
_ of this fpecies, : 
et they arrive in large flocks, on the 
¢ olland, of England, and of F rance, 
| uffs are fo different in the {pring 
2m another, that they might naturally be 
Ca fuppofed 
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