GKEEN-LEGGED LONGSHANK. 321 



the outer with thirty-two scutella. The claws are small, 

 slightly arched, compressed, laterally grooved at the base, 

 with the tip rather blunt. 



The plumage is blended, very soft, and on the upper 

 parts a little glossed ; the feathers oblong, narrow, and 

 rounded ; those on the fore part of the head short. The 

 Avings are very long and pointed, with twenty-five quills ; 

 the primaries tapering, the first longest ; the secondaries 

 short, incurvate and rounded, except the inner, which taper, 

 and of which one is scarcely an inch shorter than the longest 

 primary when the wing is closed. The tail is short, and a 

 little rounded. 



The bill is greenish-brown at the base, black toward the 

 end ; the iris brown ; the feet greenish-grey. The anterior 

 part of the forehead, the space before the eye, the throat, 

 fore part of the neck, all the lower parts of the body, and 

 the middle and hind part of t-he back white. Part of the 

 loral space is marked with small oblong brownish-grey spots. 

 The sides of the neck below and a small part of the breast 

 are faintly barred with grey, and the lower wing-coverts 

 have a central mark of dusky. The feathers of the upper 

 part of the head, and of the hind part and sides of the neck, 

 have a longitudinal dusky streak in the middle, with broad 

 greyish-white margins. The scapulars and inner secondary 

 quills are greyish-brown, margined with greyish-white, and 

 spotted with dusky toward the edges ; the smaller wing- 

 coverts brownish-grey, the larger darker toward the margin, 

 and edged with whitish, as are the outer secondaries ; the 

 primaries and their coverts dusky brownish-grey, the outer 

 quill with its shaft white. The tail is white, transversely 

 undulated with greyish-brown, the outer four feathers on 

 each side with only a series of spots on the outer edge, and 

 the outermost with merely narrow longitudinal streaks on 

 the outer web ; the middle feathers grey toward the end. 



Length to end of tail 14^ inches; extent of wings 28; 

 bill along the ridge 2-^, along the edge of lower mandible 

 2-fe ; wing from flexure 7£ ; tail o-^ ; bare part of tibia 1^ ; 

 tarsus 2^j ; first toe -fj, its claw -^ ; second toe \±, its claw 

 -2^ ; third toe 1^, its claw -fj ; fourth toe -fj, its claw 1 ^-. 



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