snipe. 227 



colour and white ; tail slightly barred with cinereous; throat and 

 breast white; the last marked with a few ash-coloured spots; legs 

 long, slender, ash-coloured. 



One of these was killed near Spalding, in Lincolnshire ; and we 

 believe the only specimen seen in this kingdom. Whether it is 

 known on the Continent of Europe, seems uncertain, but we have 

 seen a similar bird represented in drawings, from India. 



40.— REDSHANK SNIPE. 



Scolopax Calidris, Ind. Orn. ii. 722. Lin. i. 245. Gm. Lin. i. 664. Muller, No. 186. 



Kramer, 353. Frisch, t. 240. Fn. Helv. Sepp, t. p. 257. 

 Totanus Calidris, Tern. Man. 417. Id. Ed. 2d. 643. 

 Scolopax Totanus, Fn. suee. No. 167. Bris. v. 188. t. 17. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 261. Raii, 



107. A. 1. Will. 221. 

 Glareola, Klein, Av. 101. 1. Id. Stem. t. 21. f. II. a. b. 

 Tringa Gambetta, Mas, Gerin. iv. t. 463. 464. 



Die rothfussige Schnepfe, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 127. Naturf. xiii. s. 213. 

 Chevalier aux Pieds rouges, Buf. vii. 513. pi. 28. Voy. en Barb. i. 278. Daud. Orn. i. 



p. 93. pi. 5.— Seeleton. 

 La Gambette, PI. enl. 845.— in complete plumage. 

 Redshank, or Pool Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 150. Id. Sup. 225. Br. Zool. ii. No. 184. 



pi. 65. Id.fol. 124. Id. 1812. ii. 57. pi. 10. f. 1. Bartr. Trav. 292. Will. 



Engl. 299. Alb. iii. pi. 87. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 91. Lewin, iv. pi. 165. Id. pi. 



xxvii. the egg. Walcot, Syn. ii. pi. 143. Donov; Birds, v. pi. 112. Pult. Dors. 



p. 14. Orn. Diet. 



LENGTH thirteen inches, breadth nineteen and a half; weight 

 sometimes five ounces. Bill almost two inches, reddish at the base, 

 the rest dusky; irides reddish hazel ; head and hind part of the neck 

 dusky ash-colour; back and scapulars glossy, greenish brown; wing 

 coverts ash-colour, mixed with dusky and brown, and spotted with 

 white; ends of all, but the two inner secondaries, white for an inch 

 at the tip; quills dusky; four or five of the inner ones more or less 

 tipped with white, the margins dusky ; over the eye a white streak, 

 and between the bill and eye a dusky mark ; chin and fore part of 



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