The Godwit, or Yarwelph. Ægocephalus.
JSIumb. LXX.
T T S Weight was eleven Ounces and .a half; Length, from the Point
of the Bill to the End of the Claws, feventeen Inches and a half;
Breadth, when the Wings were extended, twenty eight Inches and a half;
the Feathers of the Head are of a rediih Colour, their middle Parts
.being black,; above and below the Eyes of a pale yellowifh Tinéture;
the -Neck, Throat, and Bread are rediih, with tranfverfe Lines of
Hack, edged with pale yellow, the Bill of a fordid white with faint tranfverfe
Lines of a blackilh Colour: in the Hen the Throat and Neck are
grey ; the Rump is white, powderd with blackiih Specks.
The great Feathers of the Wings are black.with white Shafts; this
Bird had a broad Bar of white acrofs the middle of the fird, fécond, and
third Feathers, the red of the fird Row and thofe of the fécond have rediih
afh-coloured Tips and Edges ; the leffer covert Feathers of the Wings
are of like Colour with the Body,; the Tail Feathers are in Number
twelve, all eroded alternately with black and white Lines ; the middle-
mod, which are the longed, being three Inches and a quarter, the red
pn each Side in Order fomewhat ihorter, the exteriour than the interiour.
The Bill is of a pale dilute rediih Colour at the Bafe, black at the
Point, longer for the Bigneis .of the Bird than the Snipe s or Woodcock's, ;
the upper Mandible a little longer than the lower ; the Tongue iharp,
the Nodrils oblong, the Ears great; the Legs are not very long, naked
to the middle of the fécond Joint ; the -Claws black: the Claw of the
middle .fore Toe is on the iniide thinned into an Edge; the outer Toe
is joined to the middle one from the Rife to the f}rft Joint by a pretty
thick Membrane of a dusky ,pr dark green Colour.
It lives and feeks its Food on the fandy Shores by the Sea-fide, which
for a great Space are uncovered when the Tide is out, where it walks
op .and down on the Sands in open View like the Gull.
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