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The Totanus or Red-leg'd Horjeman, 



Numb. LXVIII, LXIX. 



TTS Weight was eight Ounces j the Length, from-, the Point of the 

 -^ Bill to the End of the Claws, fixteen Inches and a half; Breadth, 

 when the Wings were expanded, twenty four Inches. This Bird is- 

 what the Fre?id3 call Chevalier aiix Pieds rouges^ the red-legged- Horfe- 

 man), its Bill was about two hiches long and llender, redifh at the Bafe 

 and black at the Point, the Noftrils oblong ; the Tongue Iharpj 

 flender, and undivided. 



The Top of the Head, and upper Part of the Neck are of a light brown ; 

 the middle of the Feathers fomething darker ; the Feathers of the Back, 

 and covert Feathers of the Wings in the middle black, then brown and 

 edged with white, which continues down to within an Inch and a 

 half of the Tail, then all v/hite for about an Inch more, then intervenes 

 between that and the Tip of the Tail, a Stripe of brown, then blackj 

 and laftly white ; mofl: of the quill Feathers of the Wings are black, 

 reaching, when clofed, about a quarter of an Inch farther than the Tail ; 

 the Feathers of the baftard Wing are of a dark brown with cinereous 

 Edges, and covers the Tail within a quarter of an Inch; the whole under 

 Side white. 



The Legs were long, and of a pale redifK orange Colour, bare above 

 the Knee; the fore Toes long, the Claws fmall and black; the back 

 Toe very fmall, having a very litde Claw. This Bird was £hot by Sir 

 Robert Abdy^ on the fandy Bank of a River in EJfeXy and was nof 

 much ufed to the Sight of Men, it letting him come within ten Yards 

 of it before he fired at it, and did not offer to fly away. The Hen is 

 much of the fame Colour of the Cock, the Legs excepted, which are 

 of a green Colour, 



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