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GODWIT , a word of unknown origin, the name commonly applied to a See also:marsh-See also:bird in See also:great repute, when fattened, for the table, and formerly abundant in the See also:fens of See also:Norfolk, the Isle of See also:Ely and See also:Lincolnshire. In See also:Turner's days (1544) it was See also:worth three times as much as a See also:snipe, and at the same peroid See also:Belon said of it—" C'est vn Oyseau es delices See also:des Francoys." See also:Casaubon, who Latinized its name " Dei ingenium (Ephemerides, 19th See also:September 1611), was told by the " ornithotrophaeus " he visited at See also:Wisbech that in See also:London it fetched twenty pence. Its fame as a delicacy is perpetuated by many later writers, See also:Ben See also:Jonson among them, and See also:Pennant says that in his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time (1766) it sold for See also:half-a-See also:crown or five shillings. Under the name godwit two perfectly distinct See also:species of See also:British birds were included, but that which seems to have been especially prized is known to See also:modern ornithologists as the See also:black-tailed godwit, Limosa aegocephala, formerly called, from its loud cry, a yarwhelp,' shrieker or See also:barker, in the districts it inhabited. The practice of netting this bird in large See also:numbers during the See also:spring and summer, coupled with the See also:gradual reclamation of the fens, to which it resorted, has now rendered it but a visitor in See also:England; and it probably ceased from breeding regularly in England in 1824 or thereabouts, though under favourable conditions it may have occasionally laid its eggs for some See also:thirty years later or more (See also:Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, ii. 250). This godwit is a species of wide range, reaching See also:Iceland, where it is called Jardraeka (= See also:earth-raker), in summer, and occurring numerously in See also:India in See also:winter. Its See also:chief breeding-quarters seem to extend from See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland See also:east-wards to the See also:south of See also:Russia. The second British species is that which is known as the See also:bar-tailed godwit, L. lapponica, and this seems to have never been more than a bird of See also:double passage in the See also:United See also:Kingdom, arriving in large flocks on the south See also:coast about the 12th of May, and, after staying a few days, proceeding to the See also:north-eastward. It is known to breed in See also:Lapland, but its eggs are of great rarity. Towards autumn the See also:young visit the See also:English coasts, and a few of them remain, together with some of the other species, in favourable situations throughout the winter. One of the See also:local names by which the bar-tailed godwit is known to the Norfolk gunners is scamell, a word which, in the mouth of Caliban (See also:Tempest, i1. ii.), has been the cause of much perplexity to Shakespearian critics.
The godwits belong to the See also:group Limicolae, and are about as big as a tame See also:pigeon, but possess See also:long legs, and a long See also:bill with a slight upward turn. It is believed that in the genus Limosa the See also:female is larger than the male. While the winter plumage is of a sober greyish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, the breeding-See also:dress is marked by a predominance of See also:bright See also:bay or See also:chestnut, rendering the wearer a very beautiful See also:object. The black-tailed godwit, though varying a See also:good See also:deal in See also:size, is constantly larger than the bar-tailed, and especially longer in the legs. The species may be further distinguished-by the former having the proximal third of the tail-quills pure See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, and the distal two-thirds black, with a narrow white margin, while the latter has the same feathers barred with black and white alternately for nearly their whole length.
See also:America possesses two species of the genus, the very large marbled godwit or marlin, L. fedoa, easily recognized by its size and the See also:buff See also:colour of its axillaries, and the smaller Hudsonian godwit, L. hudsonica, which has its axillaries of a deep black. This last, though less numerous than its congener, seems to range over the whole of the See also:continent, breeding in the extreme north, while it has been obtained also in the Strait of See also:Magellan and the See also:Falkland Islands. The first seems not to go farther southward than the See also:Antilles and the See also:Isthmus of See also:Panama.
1 This name seems to have survived in Whelp See also:Moor, near See also:Brandon, in See also:Suffolk.
From See also:Asia, or at least its eastern See also:part, two species have been described. One of them, L. melanuroides, differs only from L. aegocephala in its smaller size, and is believed to breed in Amurland, wintering in the islands of the Pacific, New See also:Zealand and See also:Australia. The other, L. uropygialis, is closely allied to and often mistaken for L. lapponica, from which it chiefly differs by having the rump barred like the tail. This was found breeding in the extreme north of See also:Siberia by Dr von Middendorff, and ranges to Australia, whence it was, like the last, first described by See also:Gould. (A.
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