120 A CATALOerE OF THE BIKDS 



113. TOTANUS, BecJisteiv. 



29. Geeenshank. T. geisetjs, {£risson.) 



Totanus (/lotfis, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 108, 

 110. 



,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 618. 



This is a rare autumn visitant, arriving in August and Sep- 

 tember, and soon leaving, probably going southvrard. Those 

 that have been captured are mostly in first plumage ; a specimen, 

 however, in Mr. C. M. Adamson's collection, which was shot at 

 Fenham Elats, on the 14th of November, 1845, is in the winter 

 dress. Two examples in my collection, in the first plumage, 

 were shot at Prestwick Car, on the 18th of August, 1831. 



30. Spotted Eedshaite:. T. euscus, {Linnceus.) 



Totamis fuscus, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 94. 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 587. 



A rare autumn or winter visitant. In 1830, a specimen 

 was shot at Prestwick Car; and on the 26th of August, 1831, 

 another was killed at St. Mary's Island ; these are both in the 

 first plumage, and are in my collection. On the 12th of August, 

 1840, a third specimen was killed at Blanchland, as I am in- 

 formed, by Mr. William Proctor. In Mr. C. M. Adamson's col- 

 lection there is an immature example of this fine species, that 

 was shot at Prestwick Car, in August, 1848. A young individual 

 in the Newcastle Museum was killed at Jarrow Slake. 



31. Redshajs'k. T. calideis, (Linnceus.) 



Totanus caUdris, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 96. 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 591. 



A resident species, and very common in autumn and winter on 

 our sea shores. It constantly bred at Prestwick Car, where I have 

 seen many nests, and where, on one day in April, 1855, I saw 

 fifteen breeding birds in the air at one time. When I first knew 

 the Car, in my boyliood, tlic Redshank Avas not by any means so 



