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GLOTTIS CHLOROPUS. THE GREEN-LEGGED 

 LONGSHANK, OR GREENSHANK. 



GREEN-LEGGED HORSEMAN. GREATER PLOVER. GREENSHANK SNIPE. 



Fig. 27. 



Scopolax Glottis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 245. 



Scopolax Glottis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 720. 



Greenshank. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Chevalier Aboyeur. Totanus Glottis. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 659. 



Totanus Glottis. Greenshank. Flem. Brit. Anim. 104. 



Greenshank. Totanus Glottis. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 86. 



Totanus Glottis. Greenshank. Jen. Brit. Vert. An; 200. 



Glottis Chloropus. Bonap. Comp. List. 51. 



Adult in Whiter with the bill greenish-brown at the base, 

 black toward the end, the feet greenish-grey ; the head, hind 

 part and sides of the neck, greyish-white, streaked with 

 brown ; the fore part of the back, scapulars and wing coverts 

 greyish-brown, the feathers edged with whitish; the hind part 

 of the back, the fore part of the face, and all the lower parts 

 white, but with faint grey markings on the fore part of the 

 sides, and on the lower wing coverts ; tail white, barred with 

 greyish-brown. Adult in summer with the fore neck and 

 breast marked with oblong black spots ; the fore part of the 

 back and the scapulars black, the feathers margined with 

 whitish . 



