628 

 QRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACHXE. 



SCOLOPACIDjE. 



THE COMMON REDSHANK. 



Totanus calidris. 



Scolopax calidris, Common Redslianlc, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 57. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 75. 



Totanus FLEM. Brit. An. p. 102. 



Redshank Sandpiper, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 72. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 196. 



The Redshank, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Chevalier gambette, TEMM.Man.d'Ornith.vol.ii.p.643. 



THE COMMON REDSHANK is much more numerous, and 

 accordingly much better known, than the species last de- 

 scribed, and is resident in many parts of this country all 

 the year. In the winter season it frequents and feeds on 

 the sea-shore, over those extensive flats which are left bare 

 by every receding tide, and the birds are then seen in 



