. The sportsman's British bird book . requentlyaggregated into a kind of cap at the larger end, with underlyingmarkings of pale purple. In a clutch taken in Norfolk, and now inthe British Museum, the colour is, however, pale blue, finely speckledwith reddish chestnut. A white redshank is on record. The lengthof the bird is i i inches, and its weight about 6 oz. SPOTTED REDSHANK lOI Spotted Redshank ^^^^ spotted, or, as it is sometimes called, the dusky(Totanus fuseus) redshank, is a somewhat larger bird than the last,measuring a foot in length, and weighing from 7to 8 oz. It is, in fact, the l
. The sportsman's British bird book . requentlyaggregated into a kind of cap at the larger end, with underlyingmarkings of pale purple. In a clutch taken in Norfolk, and now inthe British Museum, the colour is, however, pale blue, finely speckledwith reddish chestnut. A white redshank is on record. The lengthof the bird is i i inches, and its weight about 6 oz. SPOTTED REDSHANK lOI Spotted Redshank ^^^^ spotted, or, as it is sometimes called, the dusky(Totanus fuseus) redshank, is a somewhat larger bird than the last,measuring a foot in length, and weighing from 7to 8 oz. It is, in fact, the largest British representative of thegenus, and may be recognised at a glance by the brown and whitebarring of the secondary wing-quills and the white on the lower partof the back and rump. In the breeding-season this bird betakes itselfto the extreme habitable regions of the far north, nesting well withinthe Arctic Circle alike in Scandinavia and Eastern Siberia ; while inautumn it returns south to winter in the eenial climate of the. MOUNTED IN THE ROWLAND RD STUDIOS SPOTTED REDSHANK. countries bordering the Mediterranean, together with India, Burma,and southern China. In England, where it is a comparatively rarevisitor, less uncommon during the autumn than in the spring migration,it is more frequently seen in the southern and eastern counties thanelsewhere, being but seldom recorded from Wales and the rest of thewest coast; while it is equally rare both in Ireland and Scotland. Apair in breeding-plumage were killed in Kent in May 1905. In addition to the features already noticed, the spotted redshankin summer-dress is characterised by the plumage of the upper-partsbeing sooty black with inconspicuous white spots and white marginsto the wing-coverts ; the inner secondary quills have bronze-brownmarkings, producing a mottled appearance at the edges ; the tail isblackish barred with white; and, with the exception of the lower I02 PLOVER GROUP
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