P l a c e .
WHITE AY.
D e s c r ip t ion.
Pl a c e .
the head, neck, and upper part of the breaft, of a deep cream-
colour, paleft under the chin: lower parts of-the neck behind
white : back black: the under parts from the breaft pure white:
the firft and third order of wing coverts, with the outer part of
the wing between, and the greater quills, are black: the middle
coverts, and fome of the fecondaries, white; feveral of the laft
tinged with alh-colour : the legs and thighs together are above
eight inches in length, colour dufky : feet femi-palmated, the
webs bordering the toes for a confiderable way j the hind toe
placed very high up, and Ihort.
Inhabits North America-, and was found by Dampier in Shark’s
Bay, on the coaft of New Holland.
Scolopax alba, Lin. Syft. i. p. 147. 17.
La Barge blanche, Brif. . Or», v. p. 290. 8,—~Buf. Oif. vii. p. 508.—r
- PI. Enl. 875.
White Godwit, Edw. pi. 139.
C I Z E of the Red Godwit: length fourteen inches and a quarter.
Bill more than three inches in length, and turns greatly upwards,
as in the Scooping Avofet; the colour of it orange, with'
the point black: general colour of the plumage white, except
the under wing coverts, which are pale brown : the edge of the
wing the whole length, the greater quills, and tail, white, with a
tinge of yellow: the wings exceed the tail a trifle in length : the
legs are pretty long, and of a deep brown: the toes divided.
The above was fent from Hud/on’s Bay, and, from the figure,
has every appearance of an Avojet: however, in Edwards's plate
the toes appear cloven to the bottom -, a circumftance feeming to
overturn
overturn the fuppofition, and only to be authenticated when
other fpecimens lhall have come under the eye of the well-informed
naturalift*.
* Mr. Pennant obferves, with great propriety, the probability of its being a
variety of the American fpecies.— Arci. Zool.