SCOLOPAX CALIDRIS. 
RED -SHANK. 
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Generic Character. -^^^ Scolopax rufticola. 
Synonyms, 
ScoLOPAx CALIDRIS. Lin» Syji. i, p, 245. 11. Ind. 
, Orn, 2,p, 722. 25. 
Red-Shank. Br. ZooL 2. 184. iah. 65. Ih. fol 124. 
Ar5f. ZooL 2. 377. Alhins Birds^ 3. 
iah. 87. Lath, Syn. 5. 150. 20. 
Ih, fupt. p. 245. Mont, Orn, Bi5i. 
Vol. 2. Bewick's Br, Birds^ Pt. 2. 
P' 93- 
JL HE Red-Shank weighs about four ounces, is twelve 
inches and a quarter in length, and twenty-two in breadth. 
Bill nearly two inches long ; irides reddifh ; legs flender, 
colour yellowifh red, they meafure about four inches and a 
half from the bare part of the thigh to the extremity of the 
toes ; claws rather long ; the fexes are not difcoverable by 
their colours, as both males and females vary confiderably ; in 
fome the rump is pure white, and in one we have, the neck 
and breaft are cinerious. 
Thefe birds are common in many parts of this country, 
particularly fenny places ; they are fent from Lincoln and 
Cambridgefliires 
