Glass II. REDSHANK SNIPE. 



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Scolopax Calidris. Sc. rostro 

 rubro, pedibus cocclneis, 

 corpore cinereo, remigibus 

 secundariis albis. Lath. 

 In.d. orn. 722 id. Syn. v. 

 150. id. Sup. i. 225. 



Gallinula erythropus. Gesner 

 av. 504. 



Totanus Aldr. av. iii- I7I. 



Redshank, or Pool-srilpe. Wil. 

 orn. 299. 



Itaii Syn. av. IO7. 



TotanuSj le Chevalier. Brisson 



. av. V. 188. Tab. IJ-fg- 1- 

 Hist, d'ois. vii. 513. 



Scolopax Calidris. Gm. Lin, 



C64. 

 Sc. Totanus. Faun. Suec. sp. 



167. 

 Rothfussler Kram. 353. 

 Kleiner grau-und-weisbunter 



SandloeufFer ? Frisch, ii. 



240. 

 Hoemantopus, magnitudine 



inter Vanellum et Galli- 



naginem minorem media. 



Ray's iti?i. 247. 

 Br. Zuol. 124. Arct. Zool. 



ii. 172. 



8. Red- 

 shank. 



XHIS species is found on most of our shores; 

 in the winter time it conceals itself in the gut- 

 ters, and is generally found single, or at most 

 in pairs. 



It weighs five ounces and a half; the length Descrip- 

 is twelve inches; the breadth twenty-one; the 

 bill nearly two inches long, red at the base, black 

 towards the point. The head, hind part of the 

 neck, and scapulars, are of a dusky ash-color, 

 obscurely spotted with black ; the back is white, 

 sprinkled with black spots; the tail elegantly 

 barred with black and white; the cheeks, under 

 side of the neck, and upper part of the breast, 

 are white, streaked downward with dusky lines; 



