320 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



of England. A winter visitor further south, gener- 

 ally speaking, though specimens have stayed and 

 bred. Notes : call, peewit and kreck, kreck, hay id / 

 Song meagre but lively. Local and other names : 

 Lesser Redpoll Linnet, Lesser Red-headed Finch, 

 Rose Linnet. Sits very closely indeed. 



REDSHANK. 



(Totanus cah'dris.) 

 Order LIMICOL^: ; Family SCOLOPACID.E (SNIPES). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds. - - Length about 

 eleven inches. Bill long, 

 straight, slender, and 

 dusky at the point and 

 reddish at the base. Irides 

 hazel. Crown, nape, back 

 and wing-coverts greyish- 

 brown, spotted and 

 streaked with black : secon- 



YOUNG REDSHANK. -i , n , -, n ., 



danes tipped with white ; 



primaries nearly black. Rump, tail-coverts, and 

 feathers white, the last barred with dusky black. 

 Over the eye is a white streak, and from the gape 

 to the eye a dusky-brown one. Chin, throat, 

 breast, and under-surface of the body greyish- white, 

 spotted and streaked with brownish-black. Legs 

 and toes red ; claws black. 



The female resembles the male, but is larger. 



Situation and Locality. On the ground, in a 

 little hollow or depression, sheltered by an over- 

 hanging tuft of coarse grass or heather, or in the 

 crown of a rush-root, generally very well concealed ; 



