94 BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



RED-LEGGED GOD WIT, SPOTTED SXIPE, OR BARKER. 

 FIRST PLUMAGE. 



(TotaiiHS Fuse-US, Leisler. Chevalier arlajitin, 

 Temm.) 



LENGTH, from the tip of the bill to the end of 

 the tail, twelve inches, and to the end of the toes 

 fourteen inches and a half; breadth twenty-one 

 inches and a quarter; weight above five ounces two 

 drachms, avoirdupoise. The bill is slender, and 

 measures two inches and a half from the corners 

 of the mouth to the tip, and for half its length, 

 nearest the base, is red ; the other part black : 

 irides hazel : head, neck, breast, and belly spotted 

 in streaks, mottled and barred with dingy ash 

 brown and dull white, darker on the crown and 

 hinder part of the neck : throat white, and lines 

 of the same colour pass from the upper sides of 

 the beak over each eye, from the corners of which 



