226 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA,. 
with ashy-gray ; there are dusky bars on the flanks. Chin, 
throat, and remainder of lower plumage white. 
Summer: The brown of the upper plumage becomes dusky 
black spotted and mottled with white on the edges of the 
feathers. The head, neck, and lower parts gradually become 
sooty gray, with narrow white fringes to the feathers on the 
body ; the under wing coverts and axillaries remain white. 
Young birds resemble adults in winter plumage, but have 
more white spots on the edges of the upper plumage, and are 
broadly barred with dull brown on the lower parts. 
Bill black, the basal half of lower mandible orange-red ; iris 
brown ; legs and feet orange-red in winter, dark red in summer. 
Length 13; wing 6°75; tail 2°4; tarsus 2°3; bill from 
gape 2°5. 
Distribution —Has once been procured in the Jaffna 
Peninsula. A common winter visitor to Northern India, 
rare in Burma, and the south; breeds in the far north of 
Europe and Asia, migrating in winter to the shores of the 
Mediterranean and to Southern Asia. 
Habits —May be looked for in the same localities as the 
last species. Like many other of our rare migrants, it may 
occasionally visit the Island unnoticed. 
ToTanus GLoTTIs (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 266 ; 
Legge, p. 840). 
The Greenshank. 
Description —Winter : General colour of upper parts ashy- 
brown ; the top and sides of the head and sides of the neck 
much streaked with white ; back, wing coverts, scapulars, and 
tertiaries with dark shaft-stripes and black and white edges 
to the feathers, the scapulars and tertiaries in some cases being 
imperfectly barred with black on their margins. Lower back, 
rump, and upper tail coverts white. The tail is barred with 
brown, most strongly on the central feathers, which are ashy- 
brown at the tip. The primary coverts and primaries are 
blackish-brown, the later primaries and secondaries narrowly 
edged with white. The forehead, eyebrow, the sides of the 
face in front of the eye, and the lower plumage white. There 
