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O R D. I. G E N. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. X. REDSHANK. 

 PI. 166. 



Scolopax calidris. Lin. Syji. I. p. 345. 

 Le Chevalier. Brtf. Orn, V. p. 188. 



The redfhank is a foot in length, twenty-two inches in breadth, and weighs five ounces 

 and half. The bill two inches long, of a reddiili colour, with the tip black : eyes, red- 

 difh hazel : the head, and hind part of the neck, dulky afh-colour, obfcurely fpotted with 

 black : back, and fcapulars, glofly greenifh brown : wing coverts, afh colour, varied with 

 dulky and brown, and fpotted with white : quills, dufky ; four or five of the inner ones, 

 and moft of the fecondaries, tipped with white : over the eyes, a white ftreak : between 

 the bill and eye, dufky: chin, and forepart of the neck, pale, with fhort dufky ltreaks : 

 the under parts, from the breaft, the lower part of the back, and rump, white, in fome 

 fpeckled with dufky : tail, croffed with numerous bars of black : the legs, a bright orange 

 red. 



This fpecies varies greatly ; in winter the colours are much paler, and the white fpots, 

 fo confpicuous in the fummer drefs, are fcarcely vifible. 



It is common every where in the marfhes near the fea, where it alfo breeds. The egg 

 is reprefented in PI. XXXVI. Fig. 3. 



Mr. Pennant mentions another fpecies, which he defcribes as larger than the common 

 redfhank ; the head, upper part of the neck, and back, of a cinereous brown ; lefs wing 

 coverts brown, edged with dull white, and barred with black ; the primaries dufky, whitifli 

 on their inner fides ; fecondaries barred with dufky and white ; under fide of the neck, and 

 breaft, of a dirty white ; belly and vent white ; tail barred with cinereous and black ; legs 

 of an orange red. This he calls the Cambridge Godwit, from its having been fhot near 

 Cambridge ; and fays it is in the collection of Mr. Green. As we have never been able 

 to procure a fight of the bird, we have it not in our power to give a figure of it, and we 

 are much inclined to think, particularly as Mr. Pennant quotes no fynonime, that it is 

 not a diftincl; fpecies. 



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