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TRINGA ERYTHROPUS* 



395. Tringa erythropus (Pall.)— THE SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



ScoLOPAX ERYTHROPUS Pallas, Vroeg's Cat. Coll., Adumbratiimcula, 



p. () (1704 — Holland). 



Scolopax maculata Tunstall, Om. Brit., p. 3 (1771 — Great Britain. Ex 



Zool. Brit.). 



Totanus fuscus (Linnseas), Yarrell, iii, p. 474 ; Saunders, p. 617. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Uncommon passage-migrant (May- 

 June and Aug. -Sept., exceptional winter). Chiefly Kent to Yorks., 

 occasional south, and rare west coasts England, very rare Scotland 

 (less than twenty times, mostly in south-west) and in Ireland (tw^enty 

 or more times, chiefly in Moy estuary (Mayo and Sligo)). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, ^\anters 

 in Mediterranean countries and Africa north of Equator, India 

 and China. 



TRINGA NEBULARIAt 



396. Tringa nebularia (Gunner.)— THE GREENSHANK. 



Scolopax nebu: 

 (1767— Norway). 

 Totanus canescens (Gnielin), Yarrell, iii, p. 483 ; Saunders, p. 619. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Resident. Breeds Scotland from 

 Rannoch Moor (Perth) northwards on mainland, and most commonly 

 Inverness, eastern Ross, and Sutherland ; in Lewis and Harris (O. 

 Hebrides), rarely in Skye, possibly in Tiree, not in Orkneys, but 

 possibly on a few occasions in Shetlands. Elsewhere passage- 

 migrant throughout British coasts and occasionally inland, chiefly 

 autumn, and more rarely spring, and only occasionally observed in 

 winter. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Summers in northern regions of Europe 

 and Asia, while it passes on migration through temperate Europe 

 and Asia, and winters in Africa and tropical Asia, Malay Archi- 

 pelago, and Australia. Accidental in Canaries and Azores, and 

 America. 



* The names of Pallas, in the Catalogue of Vroeg's Collection being 

 admissible, the name erythropus has priority over Scolopax fiisca Linnaeus, 

 1766, which, by the by, is not the Scolopax fusca of the same author of 

 1758 !— E.H. 



t There can be no doubt as to the specific name of the Greenshank, which 

 has hitherto been imfortunate in its nomenclature ; it is most commonly called 

 Totanus glottis, while Savmders [I.e.) preferred the name canescens, and 

 Reichenow maintained that Linnaeus's name Tringa littorea was referable to 

 the Greenshank, which view, however, cannot be accepted. — E.H. 



