. The birds of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature ... ( 74 ) O R D. I. G E N. V. SNIPE. SPE. X. REDSHANK. PI. 166. Scolopax calidris. Lin. Syji. I. p. 345. Le Chevalier. Brtf. Orn, V. p. 188. The redfhank is a foot in length, twenty-two inches in breadth, and weighs five ounces and half. The bill two inches long, of a reddiili colour, with the tip black: eyes, red- difh hazel: the head, and hind part of the neck, dulky afh-colour, obfcurely fpotted with black : back, and fcapulars, glofly greenifh brown : wing coverts, afh colour, varied with d
. The birds of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature ... ( 74 ) O R D. I. G E N. V. SNIPE. SPE. X. REDSHANK. PI. 166. Scolopax calidris. Lin. Syji. I. p. 345. Le Chevalier. Brtf. Orn, V. p. 188. The redfhank is a foot in length, twenty-two inches in breadth, and weighs five ounces and half. The bill two inches long, of a reddiili colour, with the tip black: eyes, red- difh hazel: the head, and hind part of the neck, dulky afh-colour, obfcurely fpotted with black : back, and fcapulars, glofly greenifh brown : wing coverts, afh colour, varied with dulky and brown, and fpotted with white : quills, dufky ; four or five of the inner ones, and moft of the fecondaries, tipped with white : over the eyes, a white ftreak: between the bill and eye, dufky: chin, and forepart of the neck, pale, with fhort dufky ltreaks: the under parts, from the breaft, the lower part of the back, and rump, white, in fome fpeckled with dufky: tail, croffed with numerous bars of black : the legs, a bright orange red. This fpecies varies greatly ; in winter the colours are much paler, and the white fpots, fo confpicuous in the fummer drefs, are fcarcely vifible. It is common every where in the marfhes near the fea, where it alfo breeds. The egg is reprefented in PI. XXXVI. Fig. 3. Mr. Pennant mentions another fpecies, which he defcribes as larger than the common redfhank ; the head, upper part of the neck, and back, of a cinereous brown; lefs wing coverts brown, edged with dull white, and barred with black ; the primaries dufky, whitifli on their inner fides; fecondaries barred with dufky and white; under fide of the neck, and breaft, of a dirty white; belly and vent white ; tail barred with cinereous and black ; legs of an orange red. This he calls the Cambridge Godwit, from its having been fhot near Cambridge ; and fays it is in the collection of Mr. Green. As we have never been able to procure a fight of the bird, we have it not in our power to giv
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