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in the background is from a specimen in summer plumage, 

 obtained some years since in the fens of Cambridgeshire. 

 The finest specimens in summer plumage I have yet seen are 

 in the collection of Richard Dann, Esq. who in several sum- 

 mer excursions, when fishing and shooting in Norway and 

 Lapland, found these birds breeding in stagnant mosses with- 

 in the Arctic circle. Mr. Dann says, that though close search 

 was made for their nests he was unable to find their eggs ; 

 several pairs of the birds were obtained, which, while on the 

 wing, utter two short notes in quick succession. M. Nilsson 

 says the Spotted Redshank breeds in various parts of Scan- 

 dinavia, but the eggs are also unknown to him. Old and 

 young leave the high northern ground in August, and are 

 seen in Sweden on their passage southward in small families. 

 Muller includes this species in his Zoologia Danica, and from 

 these northern shores it may be traced southwards to Hol- 

 land, France, Spain, Provence, Switzerland, and Italy, in 

 each of which countries it is seen on its passage in spring and 

 autumn. Savi, the Italian Ornithologist, says, that the short 

 double note of this bird resembles the sound of the word 

 chi-o, chi-o. It inhabits the sea-shore, the borders of rivers 

 and lakes, morasses and water meadows, feeding on worms, 

 aquatic insects, and small testacea. The stomachs of Mr. 

 Bartlett"'s specimens contained only very minute spiral uni- 

 valves. 



M. Temminck says this species is found in Bengal, and 

 Mr. Gould mentions having received skins of it from Asia, 

 but the locality is not named. 



The adult bird in its winter plumage has the beak black, 

 except at the base, where it is bright red ; the irides dark 

 brown ; from the nostril to the eye a dusky grey streak : 

 above that a Avhite streak as far as the eye ; top of the head, 

 back of the neck, and upper part of the back, ash grey : lesser 

 wing coverts ash grey, margined with white ; greater coverts, 

 the secondaries and tertials, also ash grey, with well-defined 



