BLACK-TAILED CI ODAVIT.
RHOSTOG, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
COMMON GOPWIT. GODWYN. Y AH WHELP. YARWHIP. LESSER G0DWIT.
JADREKA SNIPE. RED GODWIT. HUDSONIAN GOD WIT. 3HRIEKER.
Limosa melanura,
" rufa major,
Fedoa melanura,
Seolopax bélgica,
" ¿Egoccphala,
" líudsoniea,
" limosa,
" Lapponica,
/F.gocephahts Bellonii,
LEISLER. TEMMINGS.
FLEMING.
B RISS ON.
STEPHENS.
GMELIN.
LINNJEUS.
LATHAM ?
PENNANT.
BEWICK.
RAY.
Limosa. L/'mus—Mud. Melanura, Melas—Black. Oura—A tail.
THIS species extends pretty generally, though unequally, over Europe
—so far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Greenland, and south again
to Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and I lolland; 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
Taugicrs, Tunis, and other parts of the north.
I t 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.
I t breeds occasionally, though sparingly, in the Cambridgeshire and
Norfolk Fens, near Buckeuham and Oby; so it is also said to have
done on the edge of Hatfield Chase, near Thome, Yorkshire—a very
likely place in former times for any such birds. It is common about
Breydon, near Yarmouth, in Norfolk; it belongs also to the Northum