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REDSHANK. 



COMMON REDSHANK. REDSHANK SANDPIPER. RED-LEG. 



RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN. RED-LEGGED SANDPIPER. GAMBET SANDPIPER. 



STRIATED SANDPIPER. SANDCOCK. POOL SNIPE. 



PLATE CLXV. PIG. II. 



Scolopax calidris, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Scolopax Totanus, BRTSSON. EAT. 



Totanus calidris, FLEMING. 



Tringa striata, LATHAM. 



Trinya Gambetta, LINNAEUS. GMELIN. LATHAM. 



THE nest of this bird, composed of a little coarse grass, is made by 

 the marshy margins of lakes and other uncultivated watery places, on 

 a heap of flags, or in some slight depression, or sheltered by a bush 

 or tuft of herbage, as also, it is said, occasionally on heaths. 



The eggs, deposited early in May, are pale reddish white tinged with 

 green, and blotted, spotted, and speckled with dark red brown, most 

 at the larger end; some varieties with bluish grey. They are four in 

 number. The young are hatched in from fourteen to sixteen days, 

 and immediately quit the nest, under the tutelage of the female bird, 

 the male taking no care of them; they soon are fledged, and able 

 to provide for themselves. 



