Class II. GREEN SHANK. 445 



Limofa, et glottis. Gej'ncr am. Seolopax glottis. Lin.fyft, 245. 183. Green 



519, 520. Glut. Faun. Suec. fp. 171. Shank. 



Piviero. Aldr. av. III. 207. Pivier Maggiore. Zinan. 102. 



Greater Plover oi ' Aldrwand. Norvegis Hoeft-Fugl. 167. 

 WiL orn. 298. Brunnich. 



Raiifyn. av. 106. Br. Zool. 121. 



Tfchoket. Scopoli, No. 157. 



THESE birds are not fo common as the for- 

 mer : appearing on our "coafts and wet 

 grounds in the winter time in fmall flocks. The Descrif. 

 length to the end of the tail is fourteen inches, to 

 that of the toes twenty ; its breadth twenty-five. 

 The bill is two inches and a half long : the upper 

 mandible black, flrait, and very (lender ; the lower 

 reflects a little upwards : the head and upper part 

 of the neck are afh-colored, marked with fmall 

 dufky lines pointing down : over each eye palTes 

 a white line : the coverts of the wings, the fcapu- 

 lars, and upper part of the back are of a brown- 

 ifh afh-color : the quil-feathers dufky, but the in- 

 ner webs fpeckled with white: the bread, belly, 

 thighs, and lower part of the back are white : the 

 tail white, marked with undulated dufky bars : 

 the inner coverts of the wings finely crofTed with 

 double and treble rows of a dufky color. 



It is a bird of an elegant fhape, and fmall weight 

 in proportion to its dimenfions, weighing only fix 

 ounces. 



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