88 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SANDPIPER. 



PLATE 19. Represents the Greenshank of the natural size, 

 just after having assumed the winter plumage, from a 

 specimen killed in 1824 at Lennoxlove, near Hadding- 

 ton in Scotland. 



fescriS! Forehead, region of the eyes, throat, fore part of the neck, 

 tion. and all the under parts, pure white. Crown of the 



TimTe head, and sides of the neck, streaked with hair-brown. 



Sides of the breast with streaks and transverse rays of 

 pale brown. Upper part of the back, wing-coverts, and 

 scapulars, deep clove-brown, with a purplish tinge, the 

 feathers being margined with greyish-white. Tertials 

 margined with white, and faintly barred with hair-brown 

 of a deeper shade. Quills brownish-black ; the shafts 

 of the first being white, very strong, and broad. Lower 

 part of the back, and the rump, white. Tail white, 

 with irregular bars of hair-brown. Bill brownish-black, 

 two inches and two-eighths in length. Legs and feet 

 greenish-grey. 



Summer j n summe r, the eye-brows and chin are white ; the face, 

 pluinaffe. 



head, under part of the neck, breast, and sides, with 



large drop-like spots of the same colour ; the rest of the 

 under parts pure white. Upper part of the back is a 

 mixture of black and grey, many of the feathers being 

 black, with greyish-white margins, the rest ash-grey, 

 marbled with pale hair-brown, having the shafts alone 

 black. Greater and part of the lesser wing-coverts ash- 

 grey, with darker centres. Tertials, and long feathers 

 covering the quills, ash-grey, with black shafts, and 

 barred upon the outer part of the webs with black and 

 pale ash-grey. Lower part of the back and the rump 

 white. Upper tail-coverts white, barred with hair- 

 brown. Tail, having the middle feathers greyish-white, 

 marked with zig-zag lines and bars of pale hair-brown ; 

 the outer feathers being wholly white, except a longitu- 

 dinal streak of hair-brown upon the outer web. Legs 

 and toes greenish-grey. 



