GLOTTIS. 129 



Genus GLOTTIS Koch, 1816. 



Bill slightly curved upward; eulmen decidedly shorter than tarsus; 

 the latter ahout twice the middle toe without claw; rump white. 



110. GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS (Gimnenis). 



GBEENSHANK. 



Scolopnx ucbuJarius GuxNERUS, Leem. Lapp. Beschr. (1767), 251. 



Glottis nebularius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 481; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 161; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 47; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 26. 



- Bohol (McGregor); Cebu {McGregor); Luzon (McGregor); Mindanao (Pla- 

 ten) ; Mindoro (McGregor) ; Negros (Hteerc Ejep.) . Africa, northern Europe and 

 northern Asia ; in winter Indian Peninsula to Australia. 



"AdiiJf in winter plumage. — General color above ashy brown, mottled 

 with whitish edges to the feathers, which are freckled and subterminally 

 lined with darker brown, the shafts being also well marked ; scapulars 

 clearer ashy gray, with an interrupted subterminal line of l)lackish brown ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pure white ; exterior wing- 

 coverts uniform blackish brown; median and greater covers lighter brown, 

 fringed with white; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the latter 

 fringed with white at the end of the inner webs; secondaries ashy brown, 

 edged with white, innermost long secondaries spotted witli black on the 

 margins; tail white, center feathers crossed with regular but somewhat 

 interrupted bars of brown, outer feathers with a few broken spots and 

 bars of brown on outer webs; crown and hind neck grayish brown, the 

 feathers edged with white, imparting a streaked appearance, more marked 

 on the head; forehead, lores, and sides of face pure white; sides of neck 

 and upper margin of ear-coverts narrowly streaked witli ,ashy brown ; 

 entire under surface pure white; sides of u))per breast irreguhirly freckled 

 with brown; under wing-coverts white, with a subterminal l)ar of l)rown, 

 or a central arrowhead line of the latter color ; axillars white, with a few 

 remains of l)rown spots; lower primary-coverts ashy, with whitish edgings; 

 quills below ashy, the lateral markings of the secondaries indicated below. 

 'Bill and feet light slate-color; iris dark brown.' (Aijres.) Length. ;>,']() ; 

 eulmen, 0(1; wing, 183; tail, (iO ; tarsus, 55. 



"^ Adult male in breeding plumage. — Of a more ruddy brown than in 

 the winter plumage and with black centers to feathers of upper surface; 

 head and neck streaked with black; sides of face white, narrowly streaked 

 with black; below white, lower throat, fore neck, and clu'st with numerous 

 ovate spots of black; flanks with a few irregular bars of bUuk; under 

 wing-coverts and axillars white barred with t)lack. bars on the latter 

 somewhat interrupted ; lower back. ruiii]». ami u])per tail -co verts white, 

 lateral coverts barred with black; two center tail-feathers ashy gray, 

 slightly freckled with <lusky. and notched with black on the margins; 

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