TOTANIN-ffi. , 359 



It is one of the earliest of our winter visitors, arriving soon 

 after the commencement of the rains. 



Lin. 



893. Jerclon's birds of India, Vol. II, p. 699 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 430 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 254 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 



THE COMMON SAND-PIPER. ^ 



Length", 775 to 8-25 ; expanse, 13 5 ; wings, 4'25 to 4'5 ; tail, 

 2 "4 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill at front, 1 . 



Bill dusky ; irides brown ; legs pale green. 



All the upper parts ashy-brown, glossed with green, and the 

 shafts darker ; back and wing-coverts with fine transverse brown 

 lines ; a white supercilium ; quills brown with a large white spot 

 on the inner webs of all except the first two ; the four central 

 tail-feathers like the back ; the two next tipped with white, the 

 outer one tipped with white, and barred on the outer web with 

 brown and white ; beneath pure white, streaked with brown on 

 the neck and breast. 



This Sand-piper is more or less common during the cold season 

 throughout the whole region. 



Totanus glottis, Lin. 



894. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 700 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 430 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 255 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 135. 



THE GREEN SHANKS. 



Length, 14 to 15 ; expanse, 25 ; wing, 8 ; tail, 375 ; tarsus, 

 275 ; bill at front, 2'2. 



Bill dusky greenish ; irides brown ; legs yellowish green. 



In winter plumage, the head, cheeks, sides and back of neck, 

 cinereous-white with brown streaks ; upper back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts, dusky brown, the feathers edged with yellowish- 

 white ; the lower back and upper tail-coverts pure white ; quills 

 dusky, some of them spotted with white on their inner webs ; tail 

 white with cross bars of brown, the outer feathers entirely white 

 with the exception of a narrow streak on the outer web ; throat, 

 foreneck, middle of the breast, and lower parts pure white ; the 

 sides of the breast streaked with brown, and somewhat ashy. 



The Green Shanks is more or less common throughout the 

 region during the cold season. 



Totanus stagnatilis, Bech. 



895. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 701 ; Butler, Guzerat; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 430 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 225 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 



