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SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



DUSKY SANDPIPEB. SPOTTED SNIPE. BLACK-HEADED SKIPE, 

 COTJRLAIO) StflPE. DIJSKT SNIPE. 



Totanus fuscus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Scolopax fuscus, MORRIS. 



" totanus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Totanus ? Fuscus Dark dark brown. 



THIS is a native of Europe, North America, and Asia; 

 occurring in India. 



Of the present species Pennant records one specimen obtained 

 in the Isle of Anglesea. Montagu notices two, both procured 

 in Devonshire. 



In April, 1838, one was found in the Isle of Ely, in 

 Cambridgeshire; one shot near there September llth., 1851. 

 In Norfolk three near Yarmouth; others have been met with 

 at Breydon; specimens indeed occur every year in that county, 

 chiefly young birds in spring and autumn, but individuals 

 also at other periods of the year. In Yorkshire one wag 

 killed about the year 1828, at Braithwell Grange, others on 

 the moors near Whitby, and Hebden Bridge. In Suffolk one 

 near Ipswich; and one at Cavenham the first week in Sep- 

 tember, 1851. In Sussex one at Eastbourne, the 6th. of the 

 same month. Five were caught in a net at Guyhirn Wash, 

 September the 3rd. and the 6th. In Hampshire one at 

 Oakhanger, in the parish of Selborne, the 30th. of August, 

 1851. 



In Northumberland two. In Cumberland three, two killed 

 near Carlisle, and one near Whitehaven. In Cornwall one in 

 1840. In Gloucestershire two; others have been purchased 



