Family SCOLOPACIDAE. 

 Totanus totanus (L.) — Common Redshank. 



(Plates 152-154, fig. a-1). 

 (Snouckaert: Avifauna Neerlandica, p. 105, No. 249). 



Colour of surface of shell: 



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Average dimensions: 

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Nest and its site : 



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 * Remark : 



ranges from greyish, greenish, brownish or 

 cream-coloured yellow to deep ochreous 

 yellow *) 



chocolate brown and black ; underlying spots 

 show through light purplish, at the big 

 end a few fine veins often occur. 



44 X 30.5 millimetres. 



1.15 grams. 



fine, but slightly less smooth than in the 

 preceding five species. 



pyriform. 



a little hollow in a dense tuft of grass, lined 

 with blades of grass. 



April, May, June. 



about 3 weeks. 



the egg depicted in Nozeman' (Nederl. 

 Vogelen, 111, p. 259) has an olive greyish 

 green ground colour, which frequently 

 occurs, e.g., in the eggs of P. pugnax and 

 N. arquata, but which, as far as I am 

 aware, has never been observed in T- totanus. 



