212 GREEN TOT ANUS. 



regular breeding- stations seem scarcely to be 

 mentioned with sufficient authenticity. Out of 

 Europe, India* and Japanf have been given to it ; 

 but we have no representative placed opposite in 

 the Prince of Canino's comparative list ; T. chlo- 

 ropigius occupying the representing place of the 

 next. Nevertheless, it may be occasionally found 

 in North America, as it is stated in the Northern 

 Zoology, that an individual " exists among a 

 collection of birds from the fur countries, sent 

 to the British Museum by the Hudson's Bay 

 Company." 



In the specimen alluded to, as killed at Jardine 

 Hall in winter, the head and nape, with a narrow 

 streak above the rictus, are clove-brown ; between 

 the base of the bill, reaching halfway over each eye, 

 is a triangular patch of white ; all the other upper 

 parts, except the tail-coverts, are blackish-green, 

 tinted with brown, and with a bronzed and glossy 

 lustre, each feather being marked on the outer 

 webs with small triangular spots of dusky-white, 

 relieved by a darker shade interiorly ; the quills 

 are greenish-black, having the shafts of the same 

 colour ; the rump is of a greyer tint than the 

 upper parts ; tail-coverts pure white ; the tail 

 white, the centre feathers to the third from the 

 outside having three distinct broad black bars 



* Colonel Sykes. By Mr. Jerdan, in his Catalogue of the 

 Birds of the Peninsula of India, tke Green Totanus is intro 

 duced. 



t Temminck, ii. p. 392. 



