SCOLOPACIDA. je 
under tail-coverts white, marked with brown; under 
-wing-coverts and axillary plume white, irregularly 
marked with brown; legs and toes livid greyish blue ; 
claws dusky. 
The egg in shape and colour resembles that of 
the Curlew, but, like the bird, is considerably less 
in size. 
SporrepD Repsuanxk, Totanus fuscus. I include 
this rare Wader amongst the Birds of Somersetshire 
on the autority of Montagu, who, in the Supplement 
to his ‘ Ornithological Dictionary,’ mentions it under 
the name of the “Spotted Snipe:” he says, “‘ We 
have been favoured with another specimen of this 
rare species, from Mr. Anstice, who shot it near 
Bridgwater, in September, from a small flock com- 
posed of several of the same species and many more 
Redshanks, which had been in association for some 
time.” I am not aware of any other occurrence of 
this species in our county, although it may have 
occurred more than once since, and, as is the case 
with so many of our rarer birds, the occurrence has 
never been recorded. Yarrell does not even give us 
the credit of the specimen mentioned by Montagu, 
as he only says, ‘‘ Montagu notices two, both killed 
in Devonshire.” 
The Spotted Redshank is for the most part a 
spring and summer visitor to England in its pas- 
sage to and from the North, where it breeds. ‘The 
greater number of captures recorded are in the 
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