THE SPOTTED REDSHANK. 
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746. TOTANUS FUSCUS. 
THE SPOTTED REDSHANK. 
Scolopax fusca, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 243. Totanus fuscus, Jercl. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 702; Hume, S. F.\. ; Dresser., Birds Eur. viii. p. 165, pi. ; Cockhwm, 
S. F. iv. p. 509 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 463 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 463; Htime, S. F. viii. p. 113; Leyge, Birds Ceylon, p. 848; Oates, S. F. x, 
p. 241. 
Description. — Winter plumage. Forehead^ crown_, nape^ lores, hind neck 
and back ashy grey ; a patch over the lores white ; sides of the face ashy 
grey streaked with white ; wing-coverts, scapulars and tertiaries ashy 
brown, the feathers more or less margined with white, the greater coverts 
with conspicuous white marks along their edges, the tertiaries with alter- 
nating white and dark brown marks ; primaries dark brown, the inner webs 
much marked with white ; secondaries white barred with brown ; rump 
pure white ; upper tail-coverts beautifully barred with black and white ; 
tail ashy brown, banded with wavy incomplete bars of white and dark 
brown ; the whole lower plumage, axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 
the fore neck and sides of the neck mottled with dusky. 
In sumyner the head, neck and underparts become sooty black ; and the 
back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts are also black, marked with 
white on the edges of the feathers. 
Bill very dark brown, the basal half of the lower mandible dusky red ; 
iris brown ; legs and toes orange-red ; claws black. 
Length 13 inches, tail 2'7;wing 6' 7, tarsus 2*2, bill from gape 2'6. The 
female is of the same size. 
This species is not only much larger than the last, but it also wants the 
conspicuous w^hite secondaries. 
The S potted Redshank is not very abundant, but it is no doubt generally 
distributed over the Province in small numbers. I observed it to be 
fairly common in the flat parts of Southern Pegu, and Mr. Davison pro- 
cured it at the mouth of the Sittang river. It does not appear to have 
been obtained by any one else in the Province. 
It has as wide a range as many of the other Waders, being found 
throughout Europe and in Africa as far south as the Cape of Good Hope. 
It occurs throughout Asia as far east as China and Cochin China, but it 
apparently does not range south into the Malay peninsula and archipelago. 
In summer it retires to the extreme north of Europe and Asia to breed. 
In habits this species does not appear to differ from the preceding. 
