72 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SANDPIPER. 



with blackish-grey. The tail has the middle feathers 

 ash-grey, barred with blackish-grey ; the outer feathers 

 with alternate bars of white and blackish-grey. Legs 

 and toes orange-red. 



REDSHANK SANDPIPER. 



TOTANUS CALIDRIS, Bechst. 

 PLATE XVI. Fig. 1. 



Totanus calidris, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 216. -Shaw's Zool. J2. 135 



Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 102. No. 139. 

 Le Grande Chevalier au pieds rouges, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 493. 



/Chevalier Gambette, Temrn. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 643. 

 Red-legged Sandpiper, Shaw's Zool. 12. 135. 

 Scolopax calidris, Linn. Syst. 1. 245. 11 GmeL Syst. 1. 164 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 722. 25. 



Scolopax Totanus, Briss. 5. 188. 3. t. 17. f. 1 Rail Syn. 107. A, 1. 



La Gambette, Buff. Ois. 7. 513. t. 28. 



Rothfussiger Wasserlaiifer, Meyer Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 368. 



Redshank or Pool Snipe, Br. Zool. 2. No. 184. t. 65 Lath. Syn. 5. 150. 



Id. Sup. 225. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Sup Lewirfs Br. Birds, 4. 



pi. 165 BewicVs Br. Birds, 2. 91. 

 Tringa Gambetta, Linn. Syst. 1. 248. 3. GmeL Syst. 1. 671. Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. 2. 728. 9 



Gambetta, Rail Syn. 107. 2 Will. 222. Id. (Angl.) 300. 



Red-legged Horseman, Albni. 2. t. 68. 



Gambet Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 167- 9.; but not the Gambet of Penn. 



Br. Zool., which is a young Ruff, as is also the Gambet of Mont. Orn. 



Diet. 



Young j Tringa striata, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 733. 24. 



I Striated Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. 2. 383 Lath. Syn. 5. 176. 21. 



PROVINCIAL, Sandcock. 



ALTHOUGH this is a well-known bird, and a permanent 

 residenter in our country, yet we find it, even in the compi- 

 lations of our own authors, described under various titles ; 

 and, what seems more extraordinary, and shows how little 

 dependence can be placed upon works so composed, we meet 

 with it arranged as a species in different genera. Thus we 

 have it classed with the Woodcocks and Snipes under the 

 name Scolopax calidris; and again, in another genus, as 

 Tringa Gambetta., and Tringa striata. This discrepancy 



Synonyms 

 pfOld. 



