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Glottis in Gefner and its figure in Buhner agree to it. I believe alfo that this is. the 

 bird which the French call Chevalier anxpieds verds,ov the green-Ieg'd Horfeman, from 

 the length and colour of its Legs. At Venice in Italy we faw many of them. 



*. II. 



The other Totano, perchance Gefners Totanus, Aldrov. lib. 20. cap. 2 4. 

 An Callidrys rubra BeUonii? 



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WE faw anddefcribed at Venice another bird, we think different from the pre- 

 cedent: though the main difference were in the colour of its Legs, which 

 were of a pale yellowilh-red. Its Bill alfo feemed to be fomething (hotter. 



We take this to be the bird the French call Chevalier aux pieds rouges, the red-leg d 

 Horfentanj the precedent ( as we laid before ) that they denominate, Chevalier aux 

 pieds verds. And perchance they may differ only in Sex 5 for this was a Male, that a 

 Female. For in other birds alfo of this kind, as for example, the Erjthra of Gefner, 

 which he puts among the Water-hens, the Female differs from the Male both in bignefs,' 

 and in the colour of the Legs. The red Callidrys of Bellonius is either the fame with 

 this or very like it: Itdiffers in that the Neck and feathers under the Wings and Rump 

 are aili-coloured, and that on the Temples on each fide it hath two black fpots, which 

 giveasitwereafhadow to the Eye-brows, which themfelves alfo are marked with 

 a white fpot. His figure of the red Callidrys doth not anfwer to the defcription, for 

 the Bill and Legs are drawn too fhort. 



Chap. V. $• I. 



jf7;e <l{edfihank or Pool-Snipe : Gallinula Erythropus major Gefnen 



* Aldrov. Totanus of the fame Gefner y as it fems to m, Aldrov. tom.i . * onithl 

 pag. 4 3 p . An Bellonii Pard ali congener longiOre roftro ? cSap.Si 



IT is of a middle fize for bigneis between a Lapwing and a Snipe, approaching to 

 the quantity of a Plover. The Head and Back are of aduskyaih-colour, fpotted 

 with black [In fome I obferved the Back to be of a dusky or brown colour, 

 inrliningtogreen.] The middle of the Neckis more cinereous. The Throat par- 

 ticoloured of black and white, the black being drawn down longways the feathers. 

 The white colour feems to have fomething of red mingled with it. The Breafl: is 

 whiter with fewer fpots, and thofe tranfverfe. 



The Tail, and feathers next to it are variegated with tranfverfe waved lines of 

 white and black alternately. The number of Tail-feathers is twelve, the length of 

 the Tail two inches three quarters. The quil-feathers in each Wing are twenty fixj 

 of which the firft is brown, only its fhaft white: The five next of a black brown, 

 on the inner fide white, and as it were fprinkled or powdered with white. The tip 

 of the feventh is white, with one or two tranfverfe black lines. In the following fea- 

 thers the white fpreads it felf further, till in the nineteenth it takes up the whole fea- 

 ther : The * fbremoft covert-feathers are blacks the middle varied with white lines. * Underfed 

 The other rows of covert-feathers are of the fame colour with the Back, that is of a K of c j ie firft 

 darkafh-colour. towof carom 



The Bill is two inches long, flender, and like a Woodcocks, of a dark red at bafe^ 

 black toward the point. The Tongue is fharp, flender, and undivided 5 the upper 

 Mandible longer, and fomething crooked at the very tip : The Eyes hazel-coloured : 

 The Nofthrils oblong. The Legs of a fair, but pale red : The Claws fmall and black. 

 The back-toe is very fmall, having a very little Claw. Of the fore-toes the inmoft is 

 theleaft : All are connected by a membrane below 3 but the outmoft with, a larger, 

 ' extending to the fecond joynt. 



It is common on theiandy fhores about England every where. 



It breeds in Marfhes, and if any one comes near its Neft it flies about, making a 

 great noife like the Lapwing. 



It differs from the Totanus of Aldrovandus, 1. In that it is much lefs. 2. That it 

 hath fhorter Bill and Feet* 3. In the dusky colour of its Back. 4. In the red colour 

 of its Legs and Feet. 



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