136 CATALOGUE OF BinDS. 



REDWING. 



Case 161. 



The Redwing arrives in the north of Scotland early 

 in the autumn, and gradually spreads itself over the 

 country on the approach of cold weather, leaving our 

 shores in the spring to rear its young in the north of 

 Europe. 



The specimens in the case were obtained in January, 

 1866, in the neighbourhood of Brighton. 



REDSHANK.— (Autumn.) 



Case 162. 



The mature bird in autumn plumage, and the young 

 of the year, are shown in the present case. 



In September, 1873, I shot an immature bird of 

 this species, that I mistook for a Spotted Redshank, 

 while feeding on a mudbank in company with a large 

 flock of other waders. On measuring its legs from the 

 thigh downwards, it was exactly 1 1 inches longer than 

 an old bird killed at the same discharge. I should 

 certainly have preserved such a gigantic specimen, had 

 it not been unfortunately plucked by mistake. 



The mature bird was shot on Breydon mudflats, in 

 the autumn of 1873, and the young on the shores of 

 the Firth of Forth, in Haddingtonshire, in September, 

 1874. 



