GLOTTIS. 129 



Genus GLOTTIS Koch, 1816. 



Bill slightly curved upward; culmen decidedly shorter than tarsus; 

 the latter about twice the middle toe without claw ; rump white. 



110. GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS (Gunnerus). 

 GREENSHANX. 



Scolopax nebularius GUNNERUS, Leem. Lapp. Beschr. (1767), 251. 



Glottis nebularius SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 481; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 161; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 47; MC- 

 GREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 26. 



Bohol ( McGregor ) ; Cebu (McGregor)-, Luzon (McGregor)-, Mindanao (Pla- 

 ten) ; Mindoro (McGregor) ; Negros (Steere Exp.) . Africa, northern Europe and 

 northern Asia ; in winter Indian Peninsula to Australia. 



"Adult in winter plumage. General color above ashy brown, mottled 

 with whitish edges to the feathers, which are freckled and subterminally 

 lined with darker brown, the shafts being also well marked; scapulars 

 clearer ashy gray, with an interrupted subterminal line of blackish brown ; 

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

 coverts uniform blackish brown ; median and greater covers lighter brown, 

 fringed with white; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the latter 

 fringed with white at the end of the inner webs ; secondaries ashy brown, 

 edged with white, innermost long secondaries spotted with black on the 

 margins; tail white, center feathers crossed with regular but somewhat 

 interrupted bars of brown, outer feathers with a few broken spots and 

 bars of brown on outer webs; crown and hind neck grayish brown, the 

 feathers edged with white, imparting a streaked appearance, more marked 

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

 and upper margin of ear-coverts narrowly streaked with ashy brown; 

 entire under surface pure white ; sides of upper breast irregularly freckled 

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

 or a central arrowhead line of the latter color ; axillars white, with a few 

 remains of brown spots ; lower primary-coverts ashy, with whitish edgings ; 

 quills below ashy, the lateral markings of the secondaries indicated below. 

 "Bill and feet light slate-color; iris dark brown.' (Ayres.) Length, 330 ; 

 culmen, 56; wing, 183; tail, 60; tarsus, 55. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Of a more ruddy brown than in 

 the winter plumage and with black centers to feathers of upper surface; 

 head and neck streaked with black ; sides of face white, narrowly streaked 

 with black ; below white, lower throat, fore neck, and chest with numerous 

 ovate spots of black; flanks with a few irregular bars of black; under 

 wing-coverts and axillars white barred with black, bars on the latter 

 somewhat interrupted ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts white, 

 lateral coverts barred with black; two center tail-feathers ashy gray, 

 slightly freckled with dusky, and notched with black on the margins; 

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