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THE DUSKY TOTANUS. 
Totanus fuscus. 
PLATE XI Y. 
Scolopax fuscus, Linn. — Totanus fuscus, Leisler and modern 
British authors.' — Chevalier arlequin, Tcmm. — Dusky 
Sandpiper, Spotted Snipe, Spotted Red-Shank, and Cam- 
bridge Godwifc (birds in the different states of plumage), 
of modem British authors. 
In this species we see the seasonal change of 
plumage marked by very deep blackish-grey on 
some parts, inclining to black, instead of the 
chestnut-red seen in the godwits and some of 
the true tring®. It is assumed at similar periods, 
and prevails on similar parts of the plumage. We 
have not a specimen in this state beside us, but 
our figure will in part illustrate it, and we give 
the description of Mr. Yarrell. Both illustrate the 
dark change of plumage, as our last plate and de- 
scription did that of the red. “ The adult bird, in 
summer, has the beak nearly black, but the base 
of the lower mandible is dark red ; the irides dark- 
brown ; over the eye the eyelid is white ; the whole 
of the head and the neck all round, sooty-black ; 
back, scapulars, all the wing-coverts, secondaries, 
