BRITISH BIRDS. 
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REDSHANK. 
RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN, POOL SNIPE, OR 
SAND COCK. 
{Scolopax CaUdris, Lin . — Le Chevalier aux Pieds Rouges, BufF.) 
This bird weighs about five ounces and a half: 
its length is twelve inches , and the breadth twenty- 
one. The bill, from the tip to the corners of the 
mouth, is more than an inch and three-quarters 
long, black at the point, and red towards the bafe : 
the feathers on the crown of the head are dark 
brown, edged with pale rufous 5 a light or whitifh 
line palTes over, and encircles each eye, from the 
corners of which a dark brown fpot is extended to 
the beak : irides hazel : the hinder part of the neck 
is obfcurely fpotted with dark brown, on a rufty 
aih-coloured ground j the throat and fore part are 
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