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BRITISH BIRDSi 
GAMBET, 
{Trmga gambettaf Lm. — La Gamhette^ BufF.) 
This Is the Chevalier Rouge of BrilTon, and the 
Red-legged Horfeman of Albin. For want of a 
fpecimen of this bird, the following defcription i^ 
borrowed from Latham :• — - 
Size of the Greenfliank : length twelve inches* 
Bill of a reddifh colour, with a black tip : the irides 
yellowifli green : head, back, and bread: cinereous 
brown, fpotted with dull yellow : wing coverts and 
fcapulars cinereous, edged with dull yellow : prime 
quills dufky ; fliaft of the firfl: white : tail dulky, 
bordered with yellow : legs yellow. * This inha- 
bits England, but is not common : has been fliot 
on the coaft of Lincolnlhire. Known in France j 
but is there a rare bird. Has a note not unlike the 
whiffle of a Woodcock ; and the flefh is efteemed* 
Inhabits Scandinavia and Iceland ; called in the laft 
Stelkn It has alfo been taken in the frozen fea be- 
tween Afia and America.’* 
* The figure of this bird, in the Planches Enluminees of Buf- 
fon, is red legged, and alfo differs in plumage from this defcrip- 
tion. 
