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THE DUSKY TOTANUS. 

 Totanus fuscus. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Scolopax fuscus, Linn. Totanus fuscus, Leisler and modern 

 British authors.- Chevalier arlequin, Temm. Dusky 

 Sandpiper, Spotted Snipe, Spotted Red-Shank, and Cam- 

 bridge Godwit (birds in the different states of plumage), 

 of modern British authors. 



IN this species we see the seasonal change of 

 plumage marked by very deep blackish-grey on 

 some parts, inclining to black, instead of the 

 chestnut -red seen in the god wits and some of 

 the true tringae. It is assumed at similar periods, 

 and prevails on similar parts of the plumage. We 

 have not a specimen in this state beside us, but 

 our figure will in part illustrate it, and we give 

 the description of Mr. Yarrell. Both illustrate the 

 dark change of plumage, as our last plate and de- 

 scription did that of the red. " The adult bird, in 

 summer, has the beak nearly black, but the base 

 of the lower mandible is dark red ; the irides dark- 

 brown ; over the eye the eyelid is white ; the whole 

 of the head and the neck all round, sooty-black ; 

 back, scapulars, all the wing-coverts, secondaries, 



