44$ 



RED SHANK. Class II. 



The legs are very long and {lender, bare above 

 two inches higher than the knees. The exterior 

 toe is united to the middle toe, as far as the fe- 

 cond joint, by a ftrong membrane which borders 

 their fides to the very end. 



Thefe birds are the Chevaliers aux pieds verds of 

 the French; as thefpotted redfhanks are the Cheva- 

 liers aux pieds rouges. 



\%\, Re q 



\'K. 



GaUinuIa erythropus. G 



av. 504. 

 Totanus Aldr. av, III. vjt, 



Redfhank, or Pool-fnipe. 



U 11. cm. 299. 

 Rati Jyn. crv. 1 c ~ 



5c. Totanus. Fair,:. Suec. Pp. 



1S7. 

 Rothfufsler Kram. 353. 

 Kleiner grau-und-weiibunter 



Sandlceuffer ? Fri/cb, II. 



240. 



Totanus, le Chevalier. Brijpm Hoemantopus , magnitudine 

 av. V. 1S8. Tab. \7-fig. 1. inter Vanellum et Galli- 



Scolop?.x Caiidris. /,;«. ^j#. naginem minorem media. 



245, 



Ra; 



s itin. 2 



2?r. Zcol. 124. 



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THIS fpecies is found on moil of our mores : 

 in the winter time it conceals itfelf in the 

 gutters •, and is generally found fmgle, or at mod 

 in pair. 

 De scrip. It weighs five ounces and a half: the length 

 is twelve inches : the breadth twenty-one: the bill 

 near two inches long, red at the bafe, black to- 

 wards the point. The head, hind part of the neck, 

 and fcapulars, are of a dufky afh-color, obfeurely 

 fpotted with black : the back is white, fprinkled 



with 



