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RED SHANK. Class II. 



The legs are very long and (lender, bare above 

 two inches higher than the knees. The exterior 

 toe is united to the middle toe, as far as the fe- 

 cond joint, by a ftrong membrane which borders 

 their fides to the very end. 



Thefe birds are the Chevaliers aux pieds verds of 

 the French ; as the fpotted redfhanks are the Cheva- 

 liers aux pieds rouges. 



184. Red 

 Shank. 



Gailinula erythropus. Gefner Sc. Totanus. Faun, Suec. /p. 



a-v. 504. 167. 



Totanus. Aldr. av. III. 171. Rothfufsicr Kram. 353. 



Redfhank, or Pool-fnipe. Kleiner grau-und-weifbunter 



Wil. cm. 299. Sandlceuffer ? Frifch, II. 



Raiijyn. av. 107. 240. 



Totanus, le Chevalier. BriJJon Hcemantopus , magnitudine 



av. V. 188. Tab. \J-fig. 1. inter Vanellum et Galli- 



Scolopax Caiidris. Lin. fyji. naginem minorem media. 



245. Ray'' 3 itin. 247. 



Br. Zool. 124. 



THIS fpecies is found on mod of our (hores : 

 in the winter time it conceals itfelf in the 

 gutters ; and is generally found fingle, or at moft 

 in pair. 

 Descrip. It weighs. five ounces and a half : the length 

 is twelve inches : the breadth twenty-one: the bill 

 near two inches long, red at the bafe, black to- 

 wards the point. The head, hind part of the neck, 

 and fcapulars, are of a dufky afh-color, obfcurely 

 fpotted with black : the back is white, fprinkled 



with 



