622 SCOLOPACID^:. 



Length. 10*5 inches; wing 5-25 ; tail 2; bill 1*62 ; tarsus 2-25 ; legs pale 

 green ; irides brown. 



Hal. The same as glottis and usually associated with it. 



1305. Totanus calidriS (/.) Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 702; 

 Hume, Str. F. i. p. 248; ii. p. 299; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 155; Dresser, 

 B. Eur. viii. p. 157, pi. ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 113; Legge, B. Ceylon 

 p. 852 ; Murray* Vert. ZooL Sind, p. 256; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 404. 

 Scolopax calidris, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 245. The RED SHANK. 



Winter Plumage. Forehead, crown, nape, back of the neck, upper back 

 and scapulars cinereous or glossy olive brown, the feathers on the back and 

 scapulars dark shafted ; supercilium and orbital ring white ; chin and throat 

 white ; sides of the face greyish white, with narrow brown streaks ; neck in 

 front and breast greyish white, with dusky or greyish brown linear markings ; 

 primaries dusky, their inner webs white ; the first quill white shafted, and 

 some of the inner ones white tipped ; secondaries white ; tertials like the 

 back ; wing coverts olive brown, the greater ones tipped with white ; axillaries, 

 under wing coverts, abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white ; lower back 

 white ; upper tail coverts and tail white, barred with dusky. 



Length. 1 1*5 inches; tail 27; wing 6-45 ; bill at front 17 to 1-9, reddish 

 at the base, its terminal half dark brown ; tarsus 2 ; irides brown ; legs 

 red. 



Hab. India generally and Ceylon during winter. Sind, Persia, Ecloo- 

 chistan and Afghanistan, Southern and Western India, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, and Burmah generally. Breeds in the North of Europe. 



1303. TotanUS fllSCUS (Linn.), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 702, No. 896; 

 Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 248 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 165, pi.; Cockburn, Str. 

 F. iv. p. 509; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 113; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 848; 

 Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, pp. 255, 256. The SPOTTED RED SHANK. 



In winter the forehead, crown, nape, back of neck and upper back ashy 

 grey, finely streaked with dusky ; supercilium white, and a dusky streak from 

 the base of the bill to the eye ; chin and throat white, sides of face white 

 with some fine dusky streaks; breast and under parts mottled and barred 

 with dingy ash brown and dull fulvous, or greyish white ; upper back, scapu- 

 lars, shoulder of wing and lesser coverts a glossy olive brown, darker on the 

 upper back and tertiaries, all the feathers spotted on the edges with white ; 

 the wing coverts also tipped with white ; lower back white ; rump barred with 

 undulating lines of ashy brown and white ; tail also barred the same ; 

 primaries dark brown, the inner ones pale brown, tipped and mottled with 

 white ; secondaries barred white and pale brown ; legs deep orange red ; bill 

 blackish, orange at the base beneath. 



Length. 13 inches ; wing 675 ; tail 2*5 ; tarsus 2'8 ; bill 2*4. 



