REDSHANK. 
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is given to it.* The Northern Zoology states, 
that a specimen from “ Hudson’s Bay exists in 
the British Museum hut it is not admitted by 
the Prince of Canino, to his last comparative list, 
as an American bird. We possess several birds 
from continental India, in their winter and young 
dress, which we refer to the Redshank ; they are 
slightly larger, but present no other material dif- 
ference. 
In the dress of the summer, the Redshank has 
the prevailing colour of the upper parts (with the 
exception of the rump) hair-brown, with an olive 
gloss or reflection, such as is seen in the plumage 
of T. hypoleucus, each feather being darker along 
the centre, and many of them being barred with 
brownish-black and dull rufous ; the bird we de- 
scribe from was killed from the nest, and is there- 
fore in the complete breeding plumage. Some 
specimens are more or less intensely marked with 
the dark and rufous colours, but we believe that 
they never completely and regularly cover the upper 
plumage as in some of the tringse ; lower part of 
the back and rump, pure white. Underneath, the 
ground colour is white, the centre of each feather 
on the throat, neck, and breast, broadly marked 
with blackish-brown, and tinted with rufous ; on 
the belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the mark- 
ings are equal in intensity, but run more in the 
form of bars ; quills are brownish-black, the shaft 
of the first white, and the tips of the four or five last 
* Temminck. 
