The Tetanus or Red-leg’d Horjeman.
Numb. LXVIII, LXIX.
R SW e i g h t was eight Ounces; the Length, from-the Point of the
Bill to the End of the Claws, fixteen Inches and a half; Breadth,
when the Wings were expanded, twenty four Inches. This Bird is
what the French call Chevalier aux Pieds rouges, the red-legged Horfe-
many, its Bill was about two Inches long and ilender, rediih at the Bafe
and black at the Point, the Noftrils oblong; the Tongue foarp,,
ilender, and undivided. 1 - •
The Top of the Plead, and upper Part of the Neck are of a light brown;
the middle of the Feathers fomething darker; the Feathers of the Back,
and covert Feathers of the Wings in the middle black, then brown and
edged with white, which continues down to within an Inch and a
half of the Tail, then all white for about an Inch more, then intervenes
between that and the Tip of the Tail, a Stripe of brown, then black,
and laftly white; moll of the quill Feathers of the Wings are black,
reaching, when doled, about a quarter of an Inch farther than the Tail;
the Feathers of the baftard Wing are of a dark brown with cinereous
Edges, and covers the Tail within a quarter of an Inch; the whole under
Side white.
The Legs were long, and of a pale redifo orange, Colour, bare above
the Knee; the fore Toes long, the Claws fmall and black; the back
Toe very fmall, having a very little Claw. This Bird was foot by Sir
Robert Abdy, on the fandy Bank of a River in EJfex, and was not
much ufed to the Sight of Men, it letting him come within ten Yards
of it before he fired at it, and did not offer to fly away. The Hen is
much of the fame Colour of the Cock, the Legs excepted, which are
of a green Colour.
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