TOTANUS CALIDRIS. 
(THE COMMON REDSHANK.) 
Scolopax calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 245 (1766). 
Tringa gambetta , Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 671 (1788). 
Totanus calidris (Linn.), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 284 (1803) ; Gould, B. of Eur. iv. 
pi. 310 (1837); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 266 (1849); Middendorff, Sibir. Keise, 
p. 215 (1853) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 265; Irby, Ibis, 1861, 
p. 239 ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 65 (1864); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 702 
(1864); Legge, Ibis, 1866, p. 420; Layard, B. South Afr. no. 611 (1867); Blanford, 
Zool. Abyss, p. 483(1870); Swinhoe,P. Z. S. 1871, p. 406; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474; 
Gould, B. Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 54 (1873) ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 255 (1872) ; Hume, Str. 
Feath. 1873, p. 248, et 1874, p. 279 ; YonLIeuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1165 (1874) ; 
Salvadori, Uccelli di Born. p. 328 (1874) ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 166 (1875) ; Walden, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 234 (1875) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 402; Dresser, B. of Europe, 
pt. 39 (1875); Blanford, Zool. Persia, p. 285 (1876); Butler & Hume, Str. Eeath. 
1876, p. 18; Scully, t. c. p. 189; Armstrong, t. c. p. 348; Davidson & Oustalet, Ois. 
de la Chine, p. 464 (1877); Hume, Str. Eeath. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p 464 ; Cripps, 
ibid. 1878, vii. p. 304 ; Hume, ibid. 1879 (List of Ind. B.), p. 113. 
Gambetta calidris (Linn.), Bonap. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 59 7 (1856). 
Le Chevalier aux pi eds rouges , Buffon; Gambetta , Chevalier raye , Buffon; Gawibet Sand- 
piper, Striated Sandpiper, Latham ; Tureluur, Dutch ; Chalreta, Portuguese ; Nasto- 
jaschy-ulit, Bussian. Chotabatan, Hind. (Jerdon) ; It bailee kotan, lamil. 
Malia watuwa, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 11-0 to 11-5 inches ; wing 6-0 to 6 '45 ; tail 2-6 to 2-7 ; tarsus 1-9 to 2-05 ; 
hare tibia 08 to 1-0 ; middle toe and claw 1-3 to 1'35 ; bill to gape 1*85 to 2-02 ; expanse 1-95 to 2-0. “ Weight 
6 oz.” {Hume). 
Iris reddish or yellowish brown ; bill black ; upper mandible with the base as far as the nostril reddish, and nearly 
half the under mandible red (the amount of red variable) ; legs and feet orange-red, joints in some greyish. 
Winter plumage. Head, hind neck, interscupular region, tertials, and wing-coverts glossy cinereous brown, the tertials 
with pale edges and dark indentations ; lores brown, darkening just in front of the eye ; above them a white 
streak, more or less lengthened into a supercilium ; primaries and their coverts blackish brown ; secondaries and 
their coverts paler brown at the base ; the terminal third of the former and the tips of the latter, together with 
the inner webs and terminal portion of the shorter primaries, white ; the coverts likewise have their outer edges 
indented with white, and a bar of the same next the tip; 1st primary-shaft white; centre tail-feathers brownish 
cinereous, indented with darker brown, remainder with the coverts white, barred with brown ; chin, throat, breast, 
lower parts, back, and rump white; the under tail-coverts with dark mesial lines ; lower part of face and sides of 
throat striated with brown; axillaries pure white; chest whitish, with the centres of the feathers brown, with 
darker mesial lines, which are generally continued down on the breast. 
Summer plumage (Norway, June : British Museum). Wing 6-3 inches ; tail 2-8 ; tarsus 1-8 ; middle toe 1-25 ; bill to 
gape 1*8. 
Forehead, lores, and face blackish brown, striated with white; the throat and fore neck with more white, the edgings 
of the feathers being broader and gradually increasing on the chest and lower parts, which may be said to be 
white, boldly streaked with black everywhere, except on the abdomen ; crown and hind neck blackish brown, the 
feathers on the former edged with rusty, the latter with greyish margins to the feathers ; lower pait ol hind neck, 
