XXXV. 

 TOTANUS CALIDRIS. (bechst.) 



Redshank. 



Like the Snipe, the Redshank breeds in nncultivated mar- 

 shy wastes ; it is most common in the extensive fenny districts 

 of Cambridgeshire and Lincohishire ; a few pairs are, how- 

 ever, dispersed throughout the country, an occasional nest 

 being found on several of the wet heathy moors of tlie north 

 of England ; its nest is nothing more than a few dry grasses 

 placed in a depression on the ground, or in a tuft of herbage, 

 and in the near neighbourhood of water ; it lays four eggs, 

 much resembling those of the Peewit in size and general ap- 

 pearance, but differing from them in being more pointed, and 

 narrower towards the smaller end, the ground-colour lighter, 

 and the spots usually more numerous, smaller, and of a ligiiter 

 brown ; the first Figure of the Plate is an example of the 

 the usual character ; Fig. 2, a variety sometimes met with. — 

 I have seen a very beautiful one differing from either, in 

 having large blueish-grey blotclies mixed with the others. 



