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REDSHANK , the usual name of a See also:bird—the Scolopax calidris of See also:Linnaeus and Totanus calidris of See also:modern authors—so called in See also:English from the See also:colour of the See also:bare See also:part of its legs, which, being also See also:long, are conspicuous as it flies or runs. In suitable localities it is abundant throughout the greater part of See also:Europe and See also:Asia, from See also:Iceland to See also:China, mostly retiring to the See also:south-See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward for the See also:winter, though a considerable number remain during that See also:season along the coasts and estuaries of some of the more See also:northern countries. Before the See also:great changes effected by drainage in See also:England it was a See also:common See also:species in many districts, but at the See also:present See also:day there are very few to which it can resort for the purpose of See also:reproduction. The See also:body of the redshank is as big as a See also:snipe's, but its longer See also:neck, wings and legs make it appear a much larger bird. Above, the See also:general colour is greyish-drab, freckled with See also:black, except the See also:lower part of the back and a conspicuous See also:band on each wing, which are See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, while the See also:flight-quills are black, thus producing a very harmonious effect. In the breeding season the back and See also:breast are mottled with dark See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, but in winter the latter is white. The See also:nest is generally concealed in a tuft of rushes or grass, a little removed from the wettest parts of the swamp whence the bird gets its sustenance, and contains four eggs, usually of a rather warmly tinted brown with blackish spots or blotches; but no brief description can be given that would point out their See also:differences from the eggs of other birds, more or less akin, among which, .those of the See also:lapwing (q.v.) especially, they are taken and find a ready See also:sale.
The name Redshank, prefixed by some epithet as Black, Dusky or Spotted, has also been applied to a larger but allied speciesthe Totanus fuscus of ornithologists. This is a much less common bird, and in Great See also:Britain as well as the greater part of Europe it only occurs on its passage to or from its breeding-grounds, which are usually found south of the See also:Arctic Circle, and differ much from those of its congeners—the spot chosen for the nest being nearly always in the midst of forests and, though not in the thickest part of them, often with trees on all sides, generally where a See also:fire has cleared the undergrowth, and mostly at some distance from See also:water. This See also:peculiar See also:habit was first ascertained by \Volley in See also:Lapland in 1853 and the following See also:year. The breeding-See also:dress this bird assumes is also very remarkable, and seems (as is suggested) to have some correlation with the burnt and blackened See also:surface interspersed with white stones or tufts of See also:lichen on which its nest is made—for the See also:head, neck, shoulders and lower parts are of a deep black, contrasting vividly with the pure white of the back and rump, while the legs become of an intense See also:crimson. At other times of the year the plumage is very similar to that of the common redshank, and the legs are of the same See also:light See also:orange-red. (A.
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