TOTANIN 2. 359 
It is one of the earliest of our winter visitors, arriving soon 
after the commencement of the rains. 
Tringoides (Actitis) hypoleucus, Zin. 
893.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 699; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 430; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 254; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
THE COMMON SAND-PIPER. 
Length, 7°75 to 8:25; expanse, 13:5; wings, 425 to 45; tail, 
2'4; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 1. 
Bill dusky ; irides brown ; legs pale green. 
All the upper parts ashy-brown, glossed with green, and the 
shafts darker; back and wing-coverts with fine transverse brown 
lines ; a white supercilium ; quills brown with a large white spot 
on the inner webs of all except the first two; the four central 
tail-feathers like the back ; the two next tipped with white, the 
outer one tipped with white, and barred on the outer web with 
brown and white; beneath pure white, streaked with brown on 
the neck and breast. 
This Sand-piper is more or less common during the cold season 
throughout the whole region. 
Totanus glottis, Zin. 
894.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 700; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 430; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 255; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 135. 
THE GREEN SHANKS. 
Length, 14 to15; expanse, 25; wing, 8; tail, 3°75; tarsus, 
2°75; bill at front, 2-2. 
Bill dusky greenish ; irides brown ; legs yellowish green. 
In winter plumage, the head, cheeks, sides and back of neck, 
cinereous-white with brown streaks ; upper back, scapulars, and 
wing-coverts, dusky brown, the feathers edged with yellowish- 
white; the lower back and upper tail-coverts pure white ; quills 
dusky, some of them spotted with white on their inner webs ; tail 
white with cross bars of brown, the outer feathers entirely white 
with the exception of a narrow streak on the outer web; throat, 
foreneck, middle of the breast, and lower parts pure white; the 
sides of the breast streaked with brown, and somewhat ashy. 
The Green Shanks is more or less common throughout the 
region during the cold season. 
Totanus stagnatilis, Bech. 
895.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 701; Butler, Guzerat; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p.18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 430; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 225; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 184. 
