Place.
14.
4- COMMON
GODWIT.
D escrip tion*
Place an»
Manners.
The above fpecimeri came from Gibraltar3 and appears to be
a variety : and I fufpedt it may alfo be ia young bird, from the
want of fullnefs of colour on the bread
-Scolppax asgocepha’a, Lin. Syji. i._p. T46. 16.
La grande Barge grife, Brif, Orn. v. p. 272. 3. pi. 24. fig. 2,
----- -------------- aboyeufe, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 501 .— PI. En!. 876.
Godwit, Yarwhelp, or Yarvvip, Raii Sjn. p. 105. A. 4.—-mil. Orn. p. 292.
— Albin-s ii. pi. .70•— Br. Zool. ii. N° i f(^%-——Ar£l. Zool. N° 373«
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/»
j^ E N G T H fixteen inches: weight twelve ounces. Bill four
inches long, bending a little upwards; the bale half pale
purple, from thence to the end black; the under mandible fhort-
e d ; from the bafe, paffing. over the eye, a whitifh dreak: the
head, neck, and upper parts, reddifli brown, each feather marked
down the middle with a dark fpot: belly and vent white : the
fix prime quills are black ; the inner edges reddifh brown; the
fh aft of the fird white, mod of the others brown; the outer
margins pale, and clouded with pale brown; the inner webs
whitifh, banded with greyilh brown : the tail feathers are white;
the two middle barred with brown; the others the fame on the
outer web, and the inner likewife towards the tips only^ legs
dufky. In fome birds the rump is white, and the chin nearly fb.
This bird is found in England, at the fame time with the Ruffs,
and taken with them promifcuoufly, a Stale-Bird being placed as
for the others; but the Godwit continues with us the winter
through, walking on the open fands, like the Curlew, and feeds on
This circumftance has alfo Been obferved by Mr. Pennant, in the Br» Zool.
but thinks it may be mere variety.
infedls.
infe&s *. It is likewife met with in various parts of the continent
of Europe and Afia, as well as in America»
La grande Barge roufle, Brif» Orn. v. p. 284. 6.— Buf. Oif. vii. p. 505.—
PI. Enl. 916. V ar. A,
Barbary Godwit* Shaw's fra v . p. 255.
It is dufky on the upper parts; the feathers edged with ru-
fous: over the eyes a ftreak of rufous white: the throat and
neck are rufous : lower part of the back and rump white,
marked with dufky fpots: upper tail coverts and tail barred
black and white : under parts from the breaft white: under tail
coverts and fides marked with tranfverfe black fpots: thighs
plain: fome' of the outer wing coverts edged at the ends with
white : quills black, with the fhafts white; the three firft marked
with a tranfverfe white fpot one third from the end : fecondaries
edged and tipped with rufous : legs greenifh brown.
Said to inhabit England. It is probably a mere variety of the
lafb. I have obferved them to vary much; and this feems to
differ in fex: at leaft there are two birds in the Leverian Mu-
fetim, which were there placed as male and female, and anfwer to
the defcription of thefe laft birds : one of them has the breaft of
a pure white, the other pale rufous.
D esc&iftion.
Plj
•Cinereous Godwit, Br. Z til. ii. N° 180. pi. 66. CINEREOUS G.
Ç I Z E of the Greenjhank. Bill two inches and a half long, but Description.
° thicker than in that bird : the head, neck, and back, va-
• Br. Zool. —I have feen them in the London markets, in the winter.
V ol. III. U negated