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is given to it.* The Northern Zoology states, 

 that a specimen from " Hudson's Bay exists in 

 the British Museum ;" but it is not admitted by 

 the Prince of Canino, to his last comparative list, 

 as an American bird. We possess several birds 

 from continental India, in their winter and young 

 dress, which we refer to the Redshank ; they are 

 slightly larger, but present no other material dif- 

 ference. 



In the dress of the summer, the Redshank has 

 the prevailing colour of the upper parts (with the 

 exception of the rump) hair-brown, with an olive 

 gloss or reflection, such as is seen in the plumage 

 of T. hypoleucus, each feather being darker along 

 the centre, and many of them being barred with 

 brownish-black and dull rufous ; the bird we de- 

 scribe from was killed from the nest, and is there- 

 fore in the complete breeding plumage. Some 

 specimens are more or less intensely marked with 

 the dark and rufous colours, but we believe that 

 they never completely and regularly cover the upper 

 plumage as in some of the tringae ; lower part of 

 the back and rump, pure white. Underneath, the 

 ground colour is white, the centre of each feather 

 on the throat, neck, and breast, broadly marked 

 with blackish-brown, and tinted with rufous ; on 

 the belly, flanks, 'and under tail-coverts, the mark- 

 ings are equal in intensity, but run more in the 

 form of bars ; quills are brownish-black, the shaft 

 of the first white, and the tips of the four or five last 

 * Temminck. 



