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almost ash-coloured above, and has the feet red. It 

 is then Scol. Calidris^ Lin. Enl. 878. 



According to M. Meyer, Scol. Curonica and Scol. 

 Cantabrigiensis, and the Tr. Afra, Gm., must be 

 referred to this bird. The first two are young. 



This bird appears to be the 



Totanus Fusciis, Leisler. Tot Nutans, Bechst. 

 and the Tringa Totanus, Meyer, in summer. 

 Tringa Fusca, Falck, and when young the Scolo- 

 pax Totanus, Gmelin, not Linnseus, and Totanus 

 Maculatus, Bechst. The Barker of Albin, the 

 Courland Snipe, Cambridge Godwit, Black Head, 

 Dusky, and Spotted Snipe of Latham. 



Red-shank, or Gamhet Snipe. Tringa Gambetta, L. 

 Enl. 845. Frisch. 240. Naum. 9, f. 9. 



In summer brown above, with black spots, and some 

 few white ones on the edges of the feathers ; white 

 underneath, with brown spots, especially on the neck 

 and breast ; red legs ; numerous brown and white 

 stripes on the tail. In winter the spots are almost 

 effaced, and the mantle is of an almost uniform grey- 

 brown. It is then as represented in the fig. Enl. 

 827' Its size is one-fourth less than the last. 



The Totanus Calidris, Bechst. Totanus Ncevius, 

 Brisson ; and, when young, Tringa Striata, Gmel. 

 not Linnaeus. See Penn. Br. Zool. t. 06, and 90, 

 and Albin. Birds, iij. t. 68. 



Stagnatile Snipe. CJievalier d longs pieds, Bonelli. 

 Totanus Stagnatilis, Bechst. 



A little smaller than the gambet, but with longer 



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