2 So ALLEN'S NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. 



brane, but there is scarcely any indication of a web between 

 the latter and the base of the inner toe. 



Only one species of the genus Glottis is known. 



I. THE GREEN-SHANK. GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS. 



S:olopax nebulariiis. Gunner. Leem. Lapp. Beschr. p. 251 



(1767). . 



Glottis chloropus, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 319 (1852). 

 Totanus canescens, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 173, pi. 570 (1871) ; 



B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 177 (1883); Saunders, ed. 



YarrelPs Brit. B. iii. p. 483 (1884) ; id. Man. Brit. B. p. 



605 (1889). 

 Totanus glottis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 149, pi. 29 



(1885). 

 Glottis nebularius, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 481 



(1896). 



Adult Male in Winter Plumage. General colour above ashy- 

 brown, mottled with whitish edges to the feathers, which are 

 freckled and sub-terminally lined with darker brown, the shafts 

 being also well marked ; scapulars clearer ashy-grey, with an 

 interrupted sub-terminal line of blackish-brown ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts, pure white ; exterior wing-coverts 

 uniform blackish-brown ; median and greater coverts lighter 

 brown, fringed with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, the latter fringed with white at the end of the 

 inner web ; the secondaries ashy-brown, edged with white, the 

 long innermost secondaries spotted with black on the margins ; 

 tail-feathers white, the centre ones crossed with regular but 

 somewhat interrupted bars of brown, the other feathers with a 

 few broken spots and bars of brown on the outer web ; crown 

 of head and hind-neck greyish-brown, the feathers edged with 

 white, imparting a streaked appearance, more marked on the 

 head ; forehead, lores, and sides of face pure white ; the sides 

 of the neck narrowly streaked with ashy-brown, as well as the 

 upper margins of the ear-coverts ; entire under surface of body 

 pure white; sides of upper breast irregularly freckled with 

 brown ; under wing-coverts white, with a sub-terminal bar of 

 brown, or a central arrow-head line of the latter colour ; axillaries 

 white, with a few remains of brown spots ; lower primary- 



