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BRITISH BIRDSo 
SPOTTED REDSHANK. 
RED-LEGGED GODWIT, SPOTTED SNIPE, OR BARKER. 
(Scolcpax TotanuSf Lin.~Z^ Chevalier rouge^ BufF.) 
The length of this bird, from the tip of the bill 
to the end of the tail, is twelve inches, and to the 
end of the toes fourteen inches and a half; its 
breadth twenty-one inches and a quarter, and its 
weight about five ounces two drachms, avoirdupoife. 
The bill is flender, meafures two inches and a half 
from the corners of the mouth to the tip, and is, 
for half its length, nearefi: the bafe, red ; the other 
part black : irides hazel : the head, neck, breaft, 
and belly are fpotted in ftreaks, mottled and barred 
with dingy afh-brown and dull white, darker on 
the crown and hinder part of the neck : the throat 
