5. LIMOSA. 177 



Totanus canescens. GRBBXSHANK. 

 Scolopax canescens, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 668 (1788) . 



Totanus glottis, Naum. viii. p. 145, xiii. p. 243; Hewitson, 

 p. 336; Gray, p. 160; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 618; id. 

 ed. 3, ii. p. 665 ; Harling, p. 46. 



Glottis chloropus, Macg. iv. p. 319. 



Glottis canescens, Gould, iv. pi. 53. 



Totanus canescens, Dresser, viii. p. 173. 



The Greenshank, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 549. 



Canescens = becoming hoary, cdnus. 



A spring and autumnal visitant to England/ breeding in 

 the north of Scotland ; found also generally inEurope, Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia. 



Genus MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. 

 & Birds in Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



Macrorhamphus = with a long beak ; from /ja/epds + p'a^os. f 



Macrorhamphus griseus. RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 

 Scolopax grisea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788). 



Macrorhamphus griseus, Macg. iv. p. 275; Gray, p. 172; 



Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 43; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 46; Gould, iv. 



pi. 76; Harling, p. 144; Dresser, viii. p. 187. 

 The Brown Snipe, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 621. 



Griseus = grey; cf. p. Ill, supra. 



A rare straggler to the British Islands; common in North 

 America, migrating in winter as far south as Brazil. 



Genus LIMOSA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 26/ (1760). 



Limosa, from limosus = muddy, from limus, mud. 



Limosa lapponica. BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



Scolopax lapponica, Linnaus, S. N. i.p. 246 (1766). 



Limosa rufa el meyeri, Naum. viii. pp. 446 & 428, xiii. 



pp. 246 & 247. 



