2 8o Allen's naturallst's library. 



brane, but there is scarcely any indication of a web between 

 the latter and the base of the inner toe. 



Only one species of the genus Glotiis is known. 



\. THE GREEN-SHANK. GLOTTLS NEBULA RIUS. 



S:oIopax 7icl)iila}'ii(s^ Gunner. Leem. Lapp. Beschr. p. 251 



(1767). 

 Glottis chloropus^ Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 319 (1852). 

 Totanus canescens, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 173, pi. 570 (187 1) ; 



B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 177 (1883); Saunders, ed. 



Yarrell's Brit. B. iii. p. 483 (1884) ; id. Man. Brit. B. p. 



605(1889). 

 Totanus glottis^ Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 149, pi. 29 



(1885). 



Glottis fiebularms, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 481 



(.896). 



Adult Male in Winter Plumage. — General colour above ashy- 

 brown, mottled with whitish edges to the feathers, which are 

 freckled and sub-terminally lined with darker brown, the shafts 

 being also well marked ; scapulars clearer ashy-grey, with an 

 interrupted sub-terminal line of blackish-brown; lower back, 

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

 uniform blackish-brown ; median and greater coverts lighter 

 brown, fringed with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, the latter fringed with white at the end of the 

 inner web ; the secondaries ashy-brown, edged with white, the 

 long innermost secondaries spotted with black on the margins ; 

 tail-feathers white, the centre ones crossed with regular but 

 som.ewhat interrupted bars of brown, the other feathers with a 

 few broken spots and bars of brown on the outer web ; crown 

 of head and hind-neck greyish-brown, the feathers edged with 

 white, imparting a streaked appearance, more marked on the 

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

 of the neck narrowly streaked with ashy-brown, as well as the 

 upper margins of the ear-coverts ; entire under surface of body 

 pure white ; sides of upper breast irregularly freckled with 

 brown ; under wing-coverts white, with a sub-terminal bar of 

 brown, or a central arrow-head line of the latter colour ; axillaries 

 white, with a few remains of brown spots ; lower primary- 



