Ot LRA wir 
Godwits feldom flay 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 {pecies. 
ee 
a Genus 48, TRING AL 
- The beak is meade, and about the fame letgth as the head, 
> The noftrils linear, or very narrow. 
— 
Four toes, that behind has-only one joint, and is sabia 
above the ground. — 
HE Ruff is one of the Gents Tringa; its - 
beak and legs are reds the three tail fea- 
_ thers on each fide are without {pots ; the forehead — 
is rough, with reddifh warts. | 
The Ruffs are very courageous and. quarrel 
ie fome birds ; they fight not only one againit 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 {pecies. 
~ Every {pring they arrive in tafe ee on the 
seb of Holland, of England, and of France. 
‘The male Ruffs are fo different in the fpring 
one from another, that they might naturally be 
C2 fuppofed 
