. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eet 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 ;532 TOTA^US FUSCUS. the feathers edged Avitli larf^e triangular white spots andint
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eet 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 ;532 TOTA^US FUSCUS. the feathers edged Avitli larf^e 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-giey. The loralband dusky, the space above it white; the fore part of theneck, the breast, and sides giryish-white with faint undu-lating transverse lines of greyish-brown ; the rest of thelower parts white ; but tlie marginal wing-coverts dusky,and the lower tail-coverts barred with grey. 333 TOTANUS CALIDRIS. THE CO:\[MOX REDSHANK TATLER. POOL SNIPE. SANDCOCK. REDSHANK. RED-LEGGED Fig. 28, Scolopax Calidris. Liun. Syst. Nat. I. 245. Tringa Gambetta. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 248. Scolopax Calidris. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 722. Tringa Gambutta. Lath. lud. Ornith. II. 728. Tringa striata. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 733. Young. Chevalier Gambctte. Totanus Calidris. Temm. Man. dOrnilh. II. (513. Totanus Calidris. lledshauk. Flum. Brit. Anim. 102. Redshank Sandpiper. Totanus Calidris. Selb. Illustr. II. 72. Totanus Calidris. llcdshank Sandpiper. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. xViiim. 19G. Totanus Calidris. Bonap. Comp. List. ^L Adult 7vith the basal half of the bill red, (he other halfbiowfiish-black; the feet orange-red; the secondary quillsblack at the base, ichite toward the end. In tvinter the upperpart of the head and hind-neck brovjn
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