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Redshank

a term applied to a deer skin, with the hair outward; used of his bare legs. In ornithology , the Totanus calidris, tolerably common over the greater part of Europe and Asia, from Iceland to China, retiring to the S. in winter. It derives its popular name from the color of the bare parts of its legs. The body is about the size of a snipe's, but the redlonger wings, legs, and neck, appears the larger bird. common in

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