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A.— Chinese Redshank, Gen. Syn. v. 151. 20. A. hid. Orn. ii. 722. 25. /3. 



Bill black, base reddish; iridesblue; head, neck behind, and 

 back greyish; chin, throat, breast, and belly white; sides of the 

 three first marked with small dusky spots; over the eye a line of 

 white; wings dusky, the outer webs of the coverts and secondaries 

 barred white and black ; shaft of the outer quill white ; rump and 

 tail barred black and white ; legs orange red. 



Inhabits the marshes of China. 



B. — This is a trifle larger. Bill much the same, tip somewhat 

 bending; the plumage on the upper parts marbled with brown, ash- 

 colour, and dusky ; some of the feathers fringed with white ; wings 

 dusky ash ; some of the secondary quills barred with white; the tail 

 barred black and white ; legs red. 



Inhabits India. Birds of this description are represented in 

 Various drawings from thence, and in one the spots are equally 

 distinct and visible as in our Redshank, in its best state of plumage ; 

 this is smaller, and called Lalgooreah. Among the drawings of 

 General Hardwicke is a female, named Chebka or Chebuka ; this 

 wants the white streak over the eye, instead of which, the forehead 

 is white; the tail much rounded; quills and tail equal in length. 



Met with at Cawnpore, in October. One of these, killed at the 

 bottom of the Bay of Zeyla, on the outside of the Straits of Babel- 

 mandel, in Mr. Salt's collection. 



41— WHITE REDSHANK. 



Scolopax Candida, Ind. Orn. ii. 722. Gm. Lin. i. 668. 



^— — — minor albus, Gerin. iv. t. 445. 



Le Chevalier blanc, Buf. vii. 519. 



White Redshank, Gen. Syn. v. 151. Edw. pi. 139. 



SIZE of the Redshank ; length eleven inches. Bill about two, 

 orange-colour, with a black tip ; plumage on the upper parts of the 



