REDSHANK. 23 



REDSHANK. 



COMMON REDSHANK. REDSHANK SANDPIPER. RED-LEG. 



RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN. RED-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 



GAMBET SANDPIPER. STRIATED SANDPIPER. 



SANDCOCK. POOL SNIPE. 



PLATE CLXV. - FIGURE II. 



Scolopax calidris, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Scolopax Totanus, BRISSON. RAY. 



Tetanus calidris, FLEMING. 



Tringa striala, LATHAM. 



Tringa Gambetta, LINNAEUS. GMEI.IN. LATHAM. 



rniHE 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. 



