. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRllD^. 623. THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT. Lim6sa lapp6nica (LinnKus). The Bar-tailed Godwit is a regular visitor to our estuaries, sand- banks and mud-flats in spring and autumn ; young bu£f-breasted birds, which are at first very tame, often beginning to arrive in August. Mr. W. Evans informs me that in the Firth of Forth from 300 to 500 pass the winter, while Mr. Abel Chapman and Mr. G. Bolam agree that far more resort to the coast of Northumberland ; but in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and southward to the Channel, com- paratively few are then to be
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRllD^. 623. THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT. Lim6sa lapp6nica (LinnKus). The Bar-tailed Godwit is a regular visitor to our estuaries, sand- banks and mud-flats in spring and autumn ; young bu£f-breasted birds, which are at first very tame, often beginning to arrive in August. Mr. W. Evans informs me that in the Firth of Forth from 300 to 500 pass the winter, while Mr. Abel Chapman and Mr. G. Bolam agree that far more resort to the coast of Northumberland ; but in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and southward to the Channel, com- paratively few are then to be met with. On the other hand, numbers in red breeding-plumage visit the south and east coasts on the spring migration, and in Norfolk, from the date of their arrival, the 12th of May used to be called by the Breydon gunners " Godwit-day.'' In Wales and the west of England this species is chiefly seen in autumn and winter; and the same may be said of that side of Scotland, where, however, flocks of non-breeding birds frequent the Sound of Harris, and also the Solway, in summer. In the Orkneys this Godwit is rare. In Ireland it is tolerably com- mon during autumn, though less plentiful in winter ; but many arrive on the west coast in March, and increase in abundance up to April, while numbers remain till nearly the middle of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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