. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 9» t^-/. REDSHANK. RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN, POOL SNIPE, ORSAND COCK. (Scolopax CaRdris, Lin.—Le Chevalier aux Pkds Routes, BufF.) This bird weighs about five ounces and a half:its length is twelve inches, and the breadth twenty-one. The bill, from the tip to the corners of themouth, is more than an inch and three-quarterslong, black at the point, and red towards the bafe:the feathers on the crown of the head are darkbrown, edged with pale rufous; a light or whitifhline paffes over, and encircles each eye, from> thecorner
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 9» t^-/. REDSHANK. RED-LEGGED HORSEMAN, POOL SNIPE, ORSAND COCK. (Scolopax CaRdris, Lin.—Le Chevalier aux Pkds Routes, BufF.) This bird weighs about five ounces and a half:its length is twelve inches, and the breadth twenty-one. The bill, from the tip to the corners of themouth, is more than an inch and three-quarterslong, black at the point, and red towards the bafe:the feathers on the crown of the head are darkbrown, edged with pale rufous; a light or whitifhline paffes over, and encircles each eye, from> thecorners of which a dark brown fpot is extended tothe beak: irides hazel: the hinder part of the neckis obfcurely fpotted with dark brown, on a ruflyafa-coloured ground; the throat and fore part areMs 92 BRITISH BIRDS. more diflinftly marked or ftreaked with fpots ofthe fame colour: on the breaft and belly, which arewhite, tinged with afh, the fpots are thinly diftri-buted, and are fhaped fomething like the headsof arrows or darts. The general appearance of theupper parts of the plum
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