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under tail-coverts white, marked with brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillary plume white, irregularly 

 marked with brown ; legs and toes livid greyish blue ; 

 claws dusky. 



The egg in shape and colour resembles that of 

 the Curlew, but, like the bird, is considerably less 

 in size. 



SPOTTED REDSHANK, Totanus fuscus. I include 

 this rare Wader amongst the Birds of Somersetshire 

 on the autority of Montagu, who, in the Supplement 

 to his * Ornithological Dictionary,' mentions it under 

 the name of the "Spotted Snipe:" he says, "We 

 have been favoured with another specimen of this 

 rare species, from Mr. Anstice, who shot it near 

 Bridgwater, in September, from a small flock com- 

 posed of several of the same species and many more 

 Hedshanks, which had been in association for some 

 time." I am not aware of any other occurrence of 

 this species in our county, although it may have 

 occurred more than once since, and, as is the case 

 with so many of our rarer birds, the occurrence has 

 never been recorded. Yarrell does not even give us 

 the credit of the specimen mentioned by Montagu, 

 as he only says, " Montagu notices two, both killed 

 in Devonshire." 



The Spotted Redshank is for the most part a 

 spring and summer visitor to England in its pas- 

 sage to and from the North, where it breeds. The 

 greater number of captures recorded are in the 



