200 AVES GRALLATORES. [TOTANUS. 



a half; of the tarsus eleven lines ; of the naked part of the tibia four 

 lines ; of the tail two inches four lines ; from the carpus to the end of the 

 wing four inches three lines: breadth, wings extended, thirteen inches 

 three lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Summer and winter plumage.) All the upper parts cine- 

 reous brown, glossed with olivaceous green ; the shafts of the feathers 

 being of a darker tint ; back and wing-coverts marked with fine trans- 

 verse undulating lines of dusky brown : over the eye a whitish streak : 

 under parts pure white, streaked on the breast and sides of the neck with 

 cinereous brown: quills brown, with a large white spot on their inner 

 webs, the two first excepted : the four middle tail-feathers like the back ; 

 the two next on each side tipped with white ; the outer one tipped with 

 white, and barred on the exterior web with white and brown : bill and 

 legs grayish brown, the latter tinged with green. (Young of the year.) 

 Throat, and fore part of the neck, pure white, spotted only on the sides ; 

 the white streak above the eyes broader and more distinct ; the feathers 

 on the back edged with reddish and dusky ; wing-coverts tipped with 

 red and black bars. (Egg.) Reddish white, spotted and speckled with 

 umber brown: long. diam. one inch four lines; trans, diam. one inch. 



A regular summer visitant, making its appearance in the Spring and 

 departing in the Autumn. Chiefly frequents the banks of rivers and 

 lakes. Nest constructed of moss and dry leaves, and placed in the grass 

 by the water side. Eggs four or five in number. Utters a clear piping 

 note in its flight. Food, worms and insects. 



** Bill rather strong, slightly recurved. 



192. T, Glottis, Bechst. (Greenshank.) Back, scapu- 

 lars, and wing-coverts, dusky brown, the feathers edged 

 with yellowish white ; lower back, and under parts, white : 

 legs greenish. 



T. Glottis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 659. Greenshank, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet, fy App. to Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 67. 

 Selb. lllust. vol. n. p. 86. pi. 19. 



DIMENS. Entire length fourteen inches. MONT. 



DESCRIPT. (Winter plumage.) From the upper mandible to the eye 

 a white streak ; head, cheeks, sides and back part of the neck, and sides 

 of the breast, cinereous white, with longitudinal brown streaks ; upper 

 part of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, dusky brown, all the fea- 

 thers broadly edged with yellowish white : lower part of the back, upper 

 tail-coverts, throat, fore part of the neck, middle of the breast, belly, and 

 other under parts, pure white : quills dusky ; some of them spotted with 

 white on their inner webs : tail white, with transverse bars of brown ; the 

 outer feathers entirely white, with the exception of a narrow longitudinal 

 streak on the exterior web : bill cinereous brown : legs yellowish green ; 

 long and slender. (Summer plumage.) Crown, nape, cheeks, and sides 

 of the neck, with dusky streaks ; throat white ; fore-neck, breast, upper 

 part of the abdomen, and flanks, white, with oval black spots ; rest of the 

 under parts pure white: upper part of the back and scapulars deep black, 

 the feathers on the back edged with white, those on the scapulars with 

 reddish white spots ; greater coverts reddish ash with black shafts, edged 

 with white: the two middle tail-feathers cinereous, with transverse brown 

 zigzag bars. (Egg.) Olive-brown, covered all over with dusky spots. 



