. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . The feet light orange-red; the clawsdusky. The upper part of the head and the hind-neck arelight brownish-grey, the feathers edged with greyish-white ;the fore part of the back blackish-brown; the scapulars,wing-coverts, and inner secondary quills of a darker tint, all 332 TOTANUS FUSCUS. the feathers edged with large triangular white spots and
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . The feet light orange-red; the clawsdusky. The upper part of the head and the hind-neck arelight brownish-grey, the feathers edged with greyish-white ;the fore part of the back blackish-brown; the scapulars,wing-coverts, and inner secondary quills of a darker tint, all 332 TOTANUS FUSCUS. the feathers edged with large triangular white spots andintervening blackish bars. The quills brownish-black, thesecondaries and inner primaries marginally spotted withwhite. The hind part of the back white, streaked withdusky; the tail-coverts and tail-feathers white, the lattertinged with grey, barred with blackish-grey. The loralband dusky, the space above it white; the fore part of theneck, the breast, and sides greyish-white with faint undu-lating transverse lines of greyish-brown ; the rest of thelower parts white ; but the marginal wing-coverts dusky,and the lower tail-coverts barred with grey. 333 TOTANUS CALIDRIS. THE COMMON REDSHANKTATLER. POOL SNIPE. SANDCOCK. REDSHANK. RED-LEGGED Fig. 28. Scolopax Calidris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 245. Tringa Gambetta. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 248. Scolopax Calidris. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 722. Tringa Gambetta. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 728. Tringa striata. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 733. Young. Chevalier Gainbette. Totanus Calidris. Temm. Man. dOrnitb. II G43. Totanus Calidris. Redshank. Flern. Brit. Anini. 102. Redshank Sandpiper. Totanus Calidris. Selb. Illustr. II. 72. Totanus Calidris. Redshank Sandpiper. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anini. 196. Totanus Calidris. Bonap. Comp. List. 51. Adult with the basal half of the bill red, the other halfbrownish-blacky the feet orange-red; the secondary quillsblack at the base, white toward the end. In winter the upperpart of the head and hind-neck brownish-gre
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