. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . quent the muddy and sandy shores of estuaries; but insummer they resort to marshes and the margins of lakes andrivers, where they feed on insects, larvae, Avorms, and mol-lusca. They form a slight nest, or deposit in a cavity theirfour pyriform, spotted eggs. In searching for food tliey diptheir bill into the soft mud or sand. That organ, althou
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . quent the muddy and sandy shores of estuaries; but insummer they resort to marshes and the margins of lakes andrivers, where they feed on insects, larvae, Avorms, and mol-lusca. They form a slight nest, or deposit in a cavity theirfour pyriform, spotted eggs. In searching for food tliey diptheir bill into the soft mud or sand. That organ, although notso soft, nor so copiously supplied with nervous filaments atthe end, is very similar to the bill of the Snipes; to whichthe Godwits are also allied, though they have not the samecrouching and skulking habits. They are generally shv,but not so readily alarmed as the Curlews, Longshanks, orTatlers. They walk rather sedately, but also run with greatspeed on occasion; have a moderately rapid, light, directflight; emit loud shrill cries; and in feeding oftcMi minglewith other shore birds. Species of this genus occur in allclimates. Two are met with in l>ritain. 260 LIMOSA RUFA. BAR-TAILED GODWIT. GODWIT. YARWHELP. STONE PLOVER. POOR Scolopax Lapponica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 246. Scolopax Lapponica. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 718. Soolopax luucophcra. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 719. Red-breasted Snipe. ]\Iont. Ornith. Diet. Common Godwit. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Limosa rufa. Temm. Man. dOrnith. 11. GG8. Liniosa rufa. Bar-tailed Godwit. Flcm. Brit. Anim. 107. Red Godwit. Limosa rufa. Selby, Illustr. ]5rit. Ornith. II. 98. Limosa rufa. Bar-tailed Godwit. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 202. Limosa rufa. Bonap. Comp. List, 52. Bill about four inches long, bent upicards; male aboutJifteen, female seventeen inches long; tarsus about two inchesand two-twelfths; bill flesh-coloured, dushy in its terminalhalf; feet greyish-blue; toes darker; claws blach, short,blunt, that of the middle to
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