GREENSHANK. 



SCOLOPACID^.] 



TOTANUS CANESCENS (J. F. Gmelin). 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Sutherkndshire, May 11, 1895. In collection of F. Poynting. 



„ 2. Tornea Lappmark, May 30, 1891. ^ 



„ 3. Ditto. June 7, 1891. 



„ 4. Ditto. May 18, 1892. 



„ 5. Ditto. May 18, 1891. }■ In collection o£ H. Massey, Esq. 



„ 6. Russian Lapland, May 25, 1868. 



„ 7. Tornea Lappmark, June 7, 1891. 



„ 8. Ditto. Ditto. ; 



9. Ditto. Junes, 1891.1 „ . „^^ 



-.r^ c ii 1 ,1- HT -,-, -ln,^- > lu collection ot 1 . Poyutiug. 



„ 10. Sutherlandshire, May 11, 1895. J *' ^ 



„ 11. Tornea Lappmark, June 2, 1885.1 ^ ,, . „ ^^ ,, -r-, 



1^-. \t o« -.o^. In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



„ 12. Ditto. May 30, 1891. J •' 



The Greenshank is a spring and autumn migrant to the British Islands, an 

 increasing number remaining during the summer to breed on the moors in the 

 northern counties of Scotland. A few pairs probably also breed in the Hebrides. 



Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, in his notes " On the Birds found breeding in 

 Sutherlandshire " *, gives the following details respecting the Greenshank : — 

 " This species is very generally distributed over the whole of Sutherland, extending 

 into Caithness, and southward into west Ross-shire, west Cromarty, west of 

 Inveruess-shii-e, Argyleshire, and Perthshire, and is present in the Hebrides. I 

 consider it far from an uncommon species in Sutherland. They are wild and 

 wary, much more so than the Redshank, in the breeding season, and the male is 

 wilder and shyer than the female. 



" The cry of the Greenshank, from which it gets its local Gaelic name in 

 West Sutherland — Teochmngh (the accent on the last syllable) — is somewhat like 

 that of the Redshank, but slower, louder, and differently modulated. Those who 



* ' Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow,' vo]. ii. part 1, pp. 113, 114. 



