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LIMICOL.E. 



The Dusky Redshank, sometimes called the Spotted Redsliank, is 

 a winter visitor to tlic Japanese coasts. There are several examples 

 in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, 



Totanusf uncus. 



p. 453), and nine in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. It is 

 recorded by Captain Blakiston in the ' Chrysanthemum ' as having 

 been obtained by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands. 



The Dusky Redshank breeds on the tundras of the Old World 

 from Lapland to Bering Straits. It visits the British Islands in 

 winter as well as Japan. 



322. TOTANUS CALIDRIS. 

 (COMMON REDSHANK.) 



Scolopax calidris, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 245 (1766). 



The Common Redshank has a white lower back and rump, but its 

 secondaries are nearly uniform white. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Kuroi)c, viii. ])!. ')(]?. fig. 1 (summer 

 ])lumagc), pi. 569. fig. 2 (winter plumage), })1. 508. fig. 1 (young in 

 first plumage). 



