Class II. CAMBRIDGE. 447 



with black fpots : the tail elegantly barred with 

 black and white : the cheeks, under fide of the 

 neck, and upper part of the breaft are white, 

 ftreaked downward with dufky lines : the belly 

 white : the exterior webs of the quil-feathers are 

 dufky : the legs long, and of a fine bright orange 

 color : the outmofl toe connected to the middle toe 

 by a fmall membrane ; the inmoft by another (till 

 {mailer. 



It breeds in the fens, and marfhes -, and flies 

 round its neft when difiurbed, making a noife like 

 a lapwing. It lays four eggs, whitifh tinged with 

 olive, marked with irregular fpots of black chiefly 

 en the thicker end. 



I DISCOVERED this in the collection of the 285. Cam. 

 Rev. Mr. Green, fnot near Cambridge. bridge. 



It is larger than the common redfhank. The 

 head, upper part of the neck, and the back are of 

 a cinereous brown : the leffer coverts of the wings 

 brown edged with dull white, and barred with 

 black : the primaries dufky, whitifh on their inner 

 fides : fecondaries barred with dufky and white : 

 under fide of neck and bread of a dirty white : bel- 

 ly and vent white: tail barred with cinereous and 

 black : legs of an orange red, 



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