Food. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Adult bird 
in winter 
plumage. 
Summer 
plumage. 
Young of 
the year. 
44 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SANDPIPER. 
alarm amongst all other birds near at hand, and thereby of- 
ten disappoints the shooter in his expectation of sport. Its 
food is the same as the rest of its immediate tribe. 
Pirate 16. Fig. 1. represents the Redshank in the winter 
plumage, and of the natural size. 
Head, back part of the neck, back and scapulars, of an 
uniform pale hair-brown, tinged with grey, and glossed 
with olive-green. Wing-coverts ash-grey, margined with 
white. Throat and under part of the neck white, finely 
streaked with ash-grey. Breast white, with small ob- 
long spots of deep hair-brown. The flanks and under 
tail-coverts white, with transverse bars of hair-brown. 
Abdomen and vent pure white. Lower part of the 
back white. Upper tail-coverts and tail white, barred 
with deep hair-brown. 'The base of the bill brick-red, 
with the tip brownish-black. Legs orange-red. 
In the summer plumage, or nuptial dress, a white streak 
extends from the base of the bill over the eye. ‘The 
head, neck, and the whole of the under parts are white, 
with oblong spots of dark hair-brown. Chin white, with 
a few small specks of hair-brown. Back and scapulars 
pale hair-brown, with an olivaceous gloss, and barred 
with brownish-black, occupying the centres of the fea- 
thers. Lesser wing-coverts plain hair-brown, glossed 
with olive. The greater coverts and tertials hair-brown, 
margined with white, and transversely barred with black- 
ish-brown. Upper tail-coverts and tail barred black and 
white. Bill and legs as in the winter dress. 
The young of the year, previous to the assumption of the 
winter plumage, have a large patch of hair-brown be- 
tween the bill and eyes. The eyebrows are white. The 
nape and back part of the neck ash-grey. The throat 
and under side of the neck white, with fine striae of ash- 
grey. The sides of the breast marbled with wood-brown. 
The belly, abdomen, and vent, pure white. The back, 
