GREENSHANK. 637 



One, formerly in the collection of the late W. W. Boulton 

 now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Boynton. 



One in Thicket Priory collection, killed near that place. 



One obtained at Spurn by the late G. W. Jalland, " several 

 years ago." 



GREENSHANK. 



Totanus canescens (Gmelin). 



Bird of passage in spring and autumn ; most numerous on the 

 coast at the latter season. Occasionally remains during winter. 



Probably the earliest allusion to this, as a county bird, 

 is in the Allan MS. of the Tunstall Museum (1791), where it 

 is stated it " appears on our coasts and wet grounds in winter, 

 in small flocks, but not very common." (Fox's " Synopsis/' 



P. H5). 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : 



Totanus glottis. The Greenshank F. O. Morris reports two killed 

 near Doncaster, and that it has been met with elsewhere. 



The Greenshank is a bird of passage in spring and autumn, 

 and is observed chiefly at the latter season on the coast ; it 

 is perhaps most numerous on the Humber flats, where it 

 was fairly common in 1892, and as many as twelve have been 

 seen together on i6th October 1881. At other seaboard 

 stations north of Spurn it is a rare visitant on passage, and 

 in Cleveland a few are generally met with in August and 

 September at the Teesmouth or on the neighbouring marshes. 

 According to Mark Booth (Zool. 1844, p. 444) it was formerly 

 a regular visitor at the end of July to Killerby, near North- 

 allerton, and an example is reported in that month, from 

 East Cottingwith, in 1882. After the end of October the 

 majority move south, though there are exceptional instances 

 of individuals having remained over winter. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke is of opinion that it occurs on migra- 

 tion in suitable inland localities ; he saw five on 26th and 27th 

 September 1886, and at the same date in the previous year, 



