COMMON REDSHANK. 591 



GRA LLA TORES. SCO LOP A C1DM. 





THE COMMON REDSHANK. 



Totanns calidris. 



Scolopax calidris, Common Redshank, 



Totanus* 



The 



W M 



Redshank Sandpiper^ 



n 



The Redsliank, 

 C/ievalier gambette, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 57. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

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

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 102. 

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

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 196. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 643. 



THE Common Redshank is much more numerous, and ac- 

 cordingly much better known, than the species last describ- 

 ed, 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 flocks ; 



