266 CHARADEIIDjE. 



from September till May in well-watered parts of Northern India ; 

 rare in Southern India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Habits, fyc. This bird occurs singly or in flocks, sometimes large, 

 about marshes, tanks, and rivers, wading in shallow open water. 

 It swims well. Before leaving India it assumes the breeding- 

 plumage. 



1466. Totanus glottis. The Greenslianlc. 



Scolopax glottis and S. totanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 245 (1766). 



Scolopax canescens, GineL Syst. NqJ,. i, p. 668 (1788). 



Totanus glottis, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. pt. 2, p. 287 (1803) ; Blyth, 



Cat. p. 265; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 700; Blyth, His, 1867, p. 169; 



King, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 217 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, pt. 2, p. 274; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 253 j 



Butler, S. F. iv, p. 18 ; v, p. 233 ; Hume, $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 463 ; 



Ball, S. F. vii, p. 229 ; Crippsj ibid. p. 304 ; Hume, Cat. no. 894 ; 



Scully, S. F. viii, p. 358 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 840 ; Vidal, S. F. 



ix, p. 86; Butler, ibid. p. 430; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 97 ; Scully, 



ibid. p. 589 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 71 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 321 ; Hume, 



ibid. p. 414 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 359 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 325 ; 



Seebohm, Charadr. p. 355. 

 Totanus canescens, Hume, S. F. i, p. 247 ; Adam, ibid. p. 397 ; 



Hume, S. F. ii, p. 299 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 344 ; Hume, ib.d. 



p. 4(55 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 177 ; Anders. Yunnan JZxped., Aves, 



p. 677 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p, 402. 

 Glottis nebularius (Gunner.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 481. 



Tantanna, Timtimma, II.; Gotra, Beng. ; Pcria kotan, Tarn. ; Malia 

 oliya, Cing. 



Coloration in winter. Forehead, supercilia, sides of head before 

 eye, cheeks, and whole lower plumage white ; the axillaries spar- 

 ingly barred with brown ; a few dark brown spots on the lores 

 in front ; crown, hind neck, and sides of neck, including the ear- 

 coverts and postorbital area, blackish brown, with broad white 

 edges, broadest on the sinciput ; back, scapulars and tertiaries, 

 median and greater coverts ashy brown, edged with black and 

 white and dark-shafted ; on the back and coverts there is a more 

 or less distinct inside blackish and outside whitish border; on the 

 scapulars, tertiaries, and under wing-coverts the border consists 

 of alternating dark and light spots ; smaller and outer coverts 

 darker and more uniform ; wiuglet, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 blackish, the later primaries narrowly edged with white ; secondaries 

 ashy brown, with dark brown inside and white outside border ; 

 lower back, rump, and tail white ; middle rectrices irregularly 

 banded with dark brown, outer rectrices with traces of cross-bands. 

 Many birds, in winter plumage, have the middle tail-feathers partly 

 or wholly ashy brown. 



In summer the head throughout, sometimes even including the 

 chin, is streaked with brown ; the feathers of the back and the 

 scapulars have broad black centres ; the fore neck and sides of 

 the breast are spotted with dark brown, and there are a few spots 

 on the middle of the breast. 



