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TOTANUS FUSCUS. THE DUSKY REDSHANK 

 TATLER. 



SPOTTED SNIPE. SPOTTED REDSHANK. RED-LEGGED GODWIT. CAMBRIDGE 

 GODWIT. DUSKY SANDPIPER. DUSKY SNIPE. DUSKY REDSHANK. 



Scolopax fusca. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 243. 



Scolopax fusca. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 724. Summer. 



Tringa atra. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 738. Summer. 



Scolopax Cantabrigiensis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 721. Winter. 



Scolopax Curonica. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 724. "Winter. 



Scolopax Totanus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 721. Young. 



Cambridge Godwit. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Spotted Snipe. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Chevalier Arlequin. Totanus fuscus. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 639. 



Totanus fuscus. Flem. Brit. Anim. 102. 



Dusky Sandpiper. Totanus fuscus. Selby, Illustr. II. 69. 



Totanus fuscus. Dusky Sandpiper. Jen. Brit. Yert. Anim. 196. 



Totanus fuscus. Bonap. Conrp. List, 51. 



Adult with the basal half of the bill red, the other half 

 brownish-black ; the feet orange-red ; the secondary quills 

 black, barred with white. In winter the upper part of the 

 head and hind-neck brownish-grey ; the fore part of the back 

 greyish-brown, streaked with dusky, its hind part white/ the 

 fail and its coverts barred with white and dusky ; the cheeks 

 and fore-neck greyish-white, faintly streaked with grey; the 

 rest of the lower parts white. In summer the head, neck, and 

 lower parts greyish-black, the feathers slightly edged with 

 whitish; those of the fore part of the back and the wing- 

 coverts blackish-brown, marginally spotted with black and 

 white ; the other parts as in winter. Young xcith the base of 

 the upper mandible dusky ; the feet orange; the upper parts 

 blackish-brown, the feathers edged with triangular white 

 spots; the hind part of the back white, streaked with dusky. 



