102 BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRES. Totanus. 



Zool. ii. 430 — N. Pheop. Temm. Orn. ii. tl(>4 — E, Curlew Knot, Curlew 

 Jack, Half Curlew ; W, Coeg ylfinhir — Breeds in Zetland. 



Length 18, breadth 33 inches; weight 14 ounces. Bill 3 J inches long, 

 dusky, tinged with red at the base : feet greyish. In general aspect and plu- 

 mage bearing a near resemblance to the Curlew. Female like the male. — Nest 

 in exposed heaths in Zetland (where the bird is called Tang-whaap). Eggs 4 

 or 5. After the breeding-season, this bird nearly disappears from the northern 

 islands, but frequents, during winter, the English shores, associating in small 

 flocks. 



STltACCiLERS. 



Ibis faldnellus. Glossy Ibis Temm. Orn. ii. 5UG This bird, readily 



distinguished from the Curlews by the naked face, has occurred, as a strag- 

 gler, repeatedly, in England. Montagu, in his Supplement, records seve- 

 ral instances, and states it as his opinion, in which he is followed by Tern- 

 minck, that the Bay Ibis (Tantalus Faldnellus, Sowerby's Brit. Misc. tab. 

 xvii.), the Glossy Ibis (T. ignevs, including T. guaraunaj, and the Green 

 Ibis (T. viridis), are merely different states of plumage, depending on 

 age, of the same species, — the Green Ibis being the young bird. " The Ibis 

 is adopted as part of the arms of the Town of Liverpool, and formerly, if 

 not at present, stood conspicuous on the Guildhall in truly golden array. 

 This is termed the Liver, from which that flourishing town derived its name, 

 and is now standing on the spot where the Foul was, on the verge of which 

 the Liver was killed." — Montagu. 



Gen. LXVII. TOTANUS— Bill soft at the base, firm, 

 with cutting edges towards the point. Upper mandible a 

 little inflected over the under. Legs long, slender. The 

 first quill longest. 



138. T.fuscus. — Base of the lowest mandible and feet red ; 



rump white ; tail-covers with cross black and white rays. 



Cambridge God wit, Penu. Brit. Zool. ii. 44G Spotted Snipe, Mont. Orn. 



Diet, and Suppl — Totanus fuscus, Temm. Orn. ii. 6'3'J. — On the coast 

 during winter. 



Length 12, breadth 22 inches; weight 5 ounces. Bill upwards of 2 inches 

 in length, black, the base of the lower mandible and the feet red. Face and 

 plumage above, dusky ; back, wing-covers and scapulars with white spots ; 

 beneath, dusky tinged with grey, the tips of the feathers white. In winter, 

 the plumage, above, has a greyish tinge; below, white: lores dusky. — Young 

 birds have the plumage with a tinge of olive-brown ; scapulars and wing co- 

 vers with triangular black spots : belly whitish, with zig-zag lines and spots 

 of brownish-ash. 



139. T. calidris. Redshank. — Base of both mandibles red; 

 distal half of the secondaries white. 



Gallina erythropus, Will. Orn. 221. Sibb. Scot. 19 — Scolopax calidris, 

 Linn. Syst. i. 245. Perm. Brit. Zool. ii. 446". — Tot. cal. Temm. Orn. ii. 

 643 — Resident. 

 Length 12, breadth 21 inches ; weight 5 ounces. Bill 2 inches long, black 

 at the point, the base, together with the feet, red. Irides chesnut. Lores 

 ■white. Above, greyish olive-brown, with longitudinal black rays ; on the sca- 

 pulars there are a few transverse black rays. Rump white. Sides of the neck 

 and beneath white, with a longitudinal black spot on the centre of each feather. 



