. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIIDjE. 625 ;. â â ' y L-Z.^. THE BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Lim6sa b^lgica (J. F. Gmelin). This species used to breed in the south of Yorkshire until the opening of the present century, and down to 1829 in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, while eggs were taken in Norfolk as recently as 1847. Now, however, the bird is observed only on the spring and autumn migrations and occasionally in winter; the passage southward beginning in August and the return taking place from April to May. At no season is this Godwit numerous, and north of t
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIIDjE. 625 ;. â â ' y L-Z.^. THE BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Lim6sa b^lgica (J. F. Gmelin). This species used to breed in the south of Yorkshire until the opening of the present century, and down to 1829 in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, while eggs were taken in Norfolk as recently as 1847. Now, however, the bird is observed only on the spring and autumn migrations and occasionally in winter; the passage southward beginning in August and the return taking place from April to May. At no season is this Godwit numerous, and north of the Humber it is of irregular occurrence, while it is seldom obtained on the west side, even on the marshes of the Solway. On the east coast of Scotland it is rare to the north of the Firth of Tay, but an example was shot at Loch Spynie in the autumn of 1878, another on Westray, Orkneys, on September 27th 1894, and Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, is sometimes visited in spring. In Ireland 3 c. 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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