102 BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRES. Totanus. 



;?ool. ii. 430 N. Pheop. Temm. Orn. ii. C04 £, Curlew Knot, Curlew- 

 Jack, Half Curlew ; W., Coeg ylfinhir Breeds in Zetland. 



Length 18, breadth 33 inches; weight 14 ounces. Bill 34 inches long, 

 dusky, tinged with red at the base : feet greyish. In general aspect and plu- 

 mage bearing a near resemblance to the Curlew. Female like the male — Nest 

 in exposed heaths in Zetland (where the bird is called Tang-whaap). Eggs 4 

 or 5. After the breeding-season, this bird nearly disap))ears from the northern 

 islands, but frequents, during winter, the English shores, associatmg in small 

 flocks. 



STRAGGLERS. 



Ibis fulcinellus. Glossy Ibis Temm. Orn. iu 590 — This bird, readily 



distinguished from the Curlews by the naked face, has occurred, as a strag- 

 gler, repeatedly, in England. IVIontagu, in his Supplement, records seve- 

 ral instances, and states it as his opinion, in which he is followed by Tem- 

 minck, that the Bay Ibis {Tantalus Faleinelhis, Sowerby's Brit. INIisc. tab. 

 xvii.), the Glossy Ibis (T. igiieus, including T. guaruuna)^ and the Green 

 Ibis (T. viridisj, are inorely different states of plumage, dei)ending on 

 age, of the same species, — the Green Ibis being the young bird. " The Ibis 

 is adopted as part of the arms of the Town of Liverpool, and formerly, if 

 not at present, stood conspicuous on the Guildhall in truly golden array. 

 This is termed the Liver, from which that flourishing town derived its name, 

 and is now standing on the spot where the Pool was, on the verge of which 

 the Liver was killecL" — Montagu. 



Gen. LXVII. TOT ANUS.— BiU soft at the base, firm, 

 with cutting edges towards the point. Upper mandible a 

 little inflected over the under. Legs long, slender. The 

 first quill longest. 



138. T.JiiscKS. — Base of the lowest mandible and feet red ; 

 rump white ; tail-covers with cross black and white rays. 



Cambridge GodAvit, Pcnn. Brit. Zool. ii. 446 — Sjiotted Snipe, Mont. Orn. 



Diet, and Suppl — Tetanus fuscus, Temm. Orn. ii. G39. — On the coast 



during winter. 

 Length 12, breadth 22 inches ; weight 5 ounces. Bill upwards of 2 inches 

 in length, black, the base of the lower mandible and the feet red. Face and 

 plumage above, dusk}'^ ; back, wing-covers and scapulars with white spots ; 

 beneath, dusky tinged with grey, the tips of the feathers white. In winter, 

 the plumage, above, has a greyisli tinge ; below, white : lores dusky — Young 

 birds have the phmiage with a tinge of olive-brown ; scapulars and wing co- 

 vers with triangular black spots : belly whitish, with zig-zag lines and spots 

 of brownish-ash. 



139. T. calidris. Redshank. — Base of both mandibles red; 

 distal half of the secondaries Avhite. 



Gallina erythropus. Will. Orn. 221. Sibb. Scot. 19 — Scolopax calidris, 



Linn. Syst. i- 245. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 446. — Tot. cal. Temm. Orn. ii. 



643 — Resident. 



Length 12, breadth 21 inches ; weight 5 ounces. Bill 2 inches long, black 



at the point, the base, together with the feet, red. Irides chesnut. Lores 



white. Above, greyish olive-brown, with longitudinal black rays ; on the sea- 



pulars there are' a jfew transverse black rays. Rump white. Sides of the neck 



and beneath white, with a longitudinal black spot on the centre of each feather- 



