CHARADRIID^. 



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THE GREENSHANK. 

 ToTANUS CANESCENS (J. F. Gmclin). 



The Greenshank occurs annually, though in small numbers, on 

 the shores and many of the inland waters of Great Britain during 

 the spring and autumn migrations, but it is not very often met 

 with in December or January. In Ireland, however, it remains 

 through the winter (especially in cos. Mayo and Cork), until the 

 spring, after which its absence is very brief, inasmuch as some 

 birds appear again early in July, while the majority have arrived 

 by the end of that month (R. Warren). In Scotland it was dis- 

 covered nesting by Macgillivray in the Outer Hebrides, where a few 

 pairs are still to be found, as they are in Skye and some of the Inner 

 islands ; but on the mainland its breeding-range is increasing, 

 especially in the Moray area, and extends over portions of Caithness, 

 Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, Argyll, and the north of Perthshire, while 

 Mr. Service thinks that a few pairs inhabit the Galloway hills. The 

 Greenshank has never been known to breed in the Orkneys, and 

 Saxby's statements respecting the finding of its eggs in Shetland 

 remain uncorroborated. 



This species is a regular summer-visitor to the fells and morasses 

 of Scandinavia, Northern Russia, and Siberia up to about lat. 60^ N. 



