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Bill dark olive-brown, darker at the tip ; iricles brown ; legs 

 yellowish green (Oates). 



Length 14; tail 3-25 ; wing7'5; tarsus 2'5 ; bill from gape 2'5. 



Distribution. Throughout the Eastern Hemisphere, breeding in 

 Northern Europe and Northern Asia, and wintering in China, 

 S. Asia, and Australia. Common in well-watered parts of Northern 

 India in winter, and generally distributed throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma at that season in suitable localities. 



Habits, $c. The Greenshank frequents the edges of rivers and 

 tanks, of estuaries and the sea, and sometimes of marshes, in small 

 or large flocks. It has a shrill trisyllabic call, usually uttered 

 when it rises. Eor the table the Greenshank is the best of the 

 Sandpipers. 



1467. Tetanus guttifer. Armstrong's Sandpiper. 



Totauus guttifer, Nordman in Ermans Reise u. d. Erde, Natur/i. 



Atlas, p. 17 (1835) ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 354. 

 Totanus haughtoni, Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 344 (1876) ; Hume, ibid. 



p. 344 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 463 ; Harting, Ibis, 18S3, p. 133, 



pi. iv ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 406. 

 Pseudototanus haughtoni, Hume, S. F. vii, p. 488 ; id. Cat. no. 894 



bis ; Hume fy Marsh. Game B. iii, p. 403, pi. 

 Pseudog'lottis guttifer, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 479. 



Coloration in winter. Forehead, sides of head as far back as eyes, 

 supercilia, and lower parts, with axillaries and wing-lining, white ; 

 lores finely speckled brown ; sides of face behind eyes and of neck 

 streaked; upper parts almost uniform ashy brown, with faint 

 shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts darker ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, 

 and primaries blackish ; secondaries ashy grey on outer webs, 

 chiefly white on inner ; lower back and rump white ; upper tail- 

 coverts the same, but with a few scattered brown angulate bars ; 

 tail pale ashy, mixed with white on outer feathers, all bordered 

 with white. 



The summer plumage is much darker above, chiefly blackish 

 brown, with a few white spots on the edges of the scapulars ; 

 scattered dark spots occur on the fore neck and breast. 



Bill dusky, tipped black, yellow near the base ; irides dark 

 brown ; legs and feet dull ochreous yellow or greenish ochreous 

 (Armstrong). 



Length 13 ; tail 2'6 ; wing 7 ; tarsus 1'75; bill from gape 2-4. 



Distribution. This Sandpiper breeds in North-eastern Asia, and 

 has been obtained in winter at the mouth of the Kangoon river by 

 Armstrong, in the Calcutta bazaar by Hume, and in Hainan by 

 Styan. 



Habits, tyc. Armstrong found this species in small parties of from 

 three to h've on sand and mud flats near the sea, associating with 

 other waders. 



