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dark brown, and tinted with ferrnofinous on the 

 crown and pinions ; the chin, white ; breast, huffish ; 

 lower parts white. In three nesthngs of another 

 clutch, the ferruginous tint just alluded to is absent, 

 the ground-colour being so pale as to approach grey 

 rather than fawn colour. The legs of the downy 

 young are incipient yellow, sometimes mottled with 

 flesh-colour. 



T. Fuscus. Spotted Redshank. 



The Spotted Redshank is an accidental visitant. 

 Mr. C. M. Adamson, in his invaluable work, '' More 

 Scraps about Birds," supplies, at p. 79, the fullest 

 particulars known to us regarding the specimens of 

 this rare wader obtained by Mr. T. C. Heysham. 

 Mr. Adamson quotes a letter written by the late 

 James Cooper, Mr. Heysham's most successful 

 collector, dated August 19th, 1840, in which he 

 says — " I forgot to tell you of my Friday's journey. 

 . . . . I went up Eden-side, and about three 

 quarters of a mile above Rockliffe, I saw a Spotted 

 Redshank, which rose and flew towards Sandsfield." 

 Mr. Adamson adds that Cooper informed him that 

 he stuffed a Spotted Redshank wdiich had been shot 

 at Cardurnock, in 1829, for Mr, Heysham, and that 

 he saw another in 1833. Yarrell appears to have 

 accepted Stanley's authority for the occurrence of 

 a Spotted Redshank at Whitehaven, but the meagre 

 entry in Stanley's list [Loud., Nat. H., 1830, p. 171), 

 *' Scolopax Totanus, Spotted Redshank, rare," is 

 clearly insufficient for that conclusion. A specimen 

 preserved in the Proud collection was shot by Mr. 

 Proud, sen., '' in the marshy backwaters of the 



