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Family SCOLOPACIDAE 



TRINGA GLAREOLA Linnaeus 



Wood Sandpiper 



[Tringa] Glareola Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 149 

 (Europe ; type locality restricted to Sweden, apud Hartert). 



Totanus glareola, Gyedenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 236 

 (listed). 



Rhyacophilus glareola, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, 

 p. 577 (Chiang Mai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, 

 p. 84 (Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 91 (Nan). 



Tringa glareola, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 172 

 (Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 

 p. 279 (Chiang Mai, Chiang Saen). 



The wood sandpiper is an abundant winter visitor throughout the 

 northern provinces. At Chiang Mai I recorded it from September 26 

 to March 14, and a single individual was seen July 11, 1931. At Ban 

 Na Noi (Nan Province) I took a specimen on April 3, 1937. An un- 

 dated bird in Stockholm was collected by Eisenhofer at Khun Tan. 

 In addition, I have it from Chiang Saen Kao, Chom Thong, and San 

 Sai Luang and have observed it at many other localities. 



This species is much the commonest of our sandpipers, occurring 

 singly or in loose flocks wherever there is mud and shallow water. At 

 Chiang Mai many are snared and sold as game in the markets. 



A male specimen had the irides brown ; the bill black, dull olive at 

 the base ; the feet and toes dull brownish green ; the claws black. 



The wood sandpiper has the upperparts generally dark brown, most 

 of the feathers spotted at the edges and narrowly tipped with white, 

 the upper tail coverts largely pure white ; the underparts white, sullied 

 or indistinctly streaked with brown on the breast; the under wing 

 coverts and axillaries white, lightly barred with brown. 



TRINGA NEBULARIA (Gunnerus) 



Greenshank 



Soolopax neoularia Gunnerus, in Leem, Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, 



1767, p. 251 (District of Trondhjem, Norway). 

 Glottis neoularia, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 



585 (Chiang Rai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 172 



(Chiang Mai). 

 Glottis neoularius, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 84 



(Chiang Mai). 



The greenshank is a rather uncommon winter visitor in the North, 

 ordinarily found along the larger rivers but occasionally, especially 

 during the migrations, alighting at marshy areas in the fields and at 

 the margins of ponds. At Chiang Mai I saw one on October 4, 

 1930, and two (together with five red- wattled lapwings) on September 



