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SCOL,OPACID.E. 



GUALLATOliEH. 



aVOLOPAVlD/E. 



THE COMMON REDSHANK. 



Scofopax calidris, Common Redshank, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 57. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, The ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 75. 



Totamts, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 102. 



,, ,, Redshank Sandpiper, Selby, Brit. Ornilh. vol. ii. p. 72. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 196. 



,, ,, The Redshank, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



,, ,, Chevalier gambette, Temm. Man, d'Ornith, vol. ii. p. 643. 



The Common Redshank is much more numerous, and 

 accordingly much better known, than the species last de- 

 scribed, and is resident in many parts of this country all the 

 year. In the winter season it frequents and feeds on the sea- 

 shore, over those extensive flats which arc left bare by every 



