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the margins with yellowish-white, on the wings 

 and long tertials these markings become more 

 decided, and are often surrounded by a darker 

 shade ; the grey markings on the lower parts are 

 broader and more crowded, and on the breast form 

 almost the prevailing colour ; the colour of the 

 base of the bill and the legs is less vivid. It may 

 be remarked, that several of the specimens received 

 from India are in this young state of plumage. 



GREENSHANK, TOTANUS GLOTTIS. Scolopax glot- 

 tis,. Linn. Le Chevalier aboyeur, Temm. Green- 

 shank, Green-legged Horseman of modern British 

 authors. In Scotland, whether in summer or in 

 winter, the Greenshank is only a straggling visitor, 

 in summer being confined to the extreme north, 

 where it breeds sparingly, and in autumn or win- 

 ter being met with singly, as young birds, on their 

 migration from the breeding places, or in pairs. 

 In the southern parts of our island it seems equally 

 straggling, its nidification there being unknown, 

 consequently, the autumn or winter are the only 

 times when it is seen. A few years since, authentic 

 accounts of its nidification in Britain were want- 

 ing ; when, in the summer of 1834, several pairs 

 were met with breeding by myself and Mr. Selby, 

 and some others, during an excursion to Suther- 

 landshire; the season, however, being advanced, 

 the young only were procured, which did not differ 

 from similar states of the sandpipers, except in 



