GREENSHANK. 135 



93. Glottis nebularius. GREENSHANK. 



Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 36 (pt. xvi.), Sept. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 3, pi. 155, Aug. 



18th, 1913. 



Scolopax nebularia Gunnerus, in Knud Leem, Beskrivelse over Finmarken's Lapper, p. 251 



(note), (pref. Jan. 29th) 1767 : Norway, Europe. 



Scolopax cineracea Latham, Gen. Synops., Suppl. I., p. 292, (pref. May 1st) 1787 : Spalding, 



Lincolnshire, England. 



Scolopax canescens Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. n., p. 668, April 20th, 1789. Based on 



same as preceding, viz., Pennant, Brit. Zool., Vol. II., no. 180, pi. XLVI. 



Limosa varia Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (ed. Levrault), Vol. IV., p. 64, 1805 : Europe. 



Totanus griseus Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl., Vol. IV., p. 231, 1809 : Europe = 



Germany. 



Totanus fistulans Bechstein, ib., p. 241. 



Totanus chloropus Meyer und Wolf, Taschen. deutsch Vogel, p. 371, 1810 (pref. Aug. 20th, 



1809) : Germany. 



Glottis natans Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., pp. XLII., 305, July 1816. New name for preceding. 



Limicula glottis Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 23, Dec. 1817 : England. 



Totanus longipes Brehm, Beitr. z. Vogelk., Vol. III., p. 517, 1822, pref. May : shores of Baltic. 



Totanus glottoides Vigors, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1831, p. 173, March 2nd, 1832 : 



Himalayan Mountains, India. 



Glottis ftoridanus Bonaparte, Geogr. Comp. List Birds Europe and North America, p. 51, 



April 14th, 1838 : Florida, North America. 



Glottis vigorsi Gray, List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. HI, sect. I., p. 99, 1844. New name for 



T. glottoides Vigors. 



Glottis alhicollis Brehm, Isis, 1845, heft 5, col. 352, May. New name for T. glottoides Vigors. 



Glottis nivigula Gray, Cat. Mamm. and Birds Nepal, pres. Hodgson Brit. Mus., pp. 138, 156, 



pref. Dec. 10th, 1846 : Nepal, India. 



Glottis linnei Malm, Gotebergs and Bohuslans Fauna, p. 278, 1877. New name for " S. 



glottis Linn." = Lath. 



Glottis nebularius georgi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 126, Jan. 28th, 1915 : 



New South Wales. 



DISTRIBUTION. Winter visitor to Australia, breeding in the northern hemisphere. 



Adult male in summer-plumage. Head and hind -neck dark brown with white 

 margins to the feathers ; mantle and upper back black with grey edgings, the dark 

 markings becoming more elongated on some of the long scapulars where the margins 

 are grey barred with black ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts dark brown, 

 some of the major coverts edged with white at the tips, the small marginal coverts 

 round the bend of the wing also edged with white ; bastard -wing, primary -co verts 

 and quills dark brown, the latter paler brown on the inner webs, some of the short 

 inner primaries narrowly tipped with white, the shaft of the first, or outer primary, 

 is white ; secondaries greyish-brown, mottled with white on the inner webs, and 

 edged with white at the tips, the long innermost secondaries like the long scapulars ; 

 lower back and the rump white ; upper tail-coverts and tail white, barred with 

 brown, the bars much more sparsely shown on the outer feathers of the latter ; a 

 ring of short white feathers encircles the eye ; fore-head, sides of face, and throat 

 white, with dark central streaks to the feathers ; the central lines become larger and 

 more pear-shaped on the sides of the neck, fore-neck, and breast ; these markings 

 are more or less broken up into bars on the sides of the body and lateral under tail- 

 coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, barred with brown ; greater 

 under wing-coverts uniform grey with white edges ; bill brown, basal third leaden - 

 grey ; iris blackish-brown ; tarsi and feet light grey. Total length 335 mm. ; 

 culmen, 52, wing 183, tail 80, tarsus 58. 



Adult female in summer -plumage. Similar to the adult male but larger. 



Adult male in winter -plumage. Differs from the summer-plumage in being 

 greyer and less black on the upper-surface, and by the uniform white under-surface. 



The bird in autumn has the dark upper -surface similar to the summer-plumage, 

 and the all-white under-surface like that of the winter-plumage. 



Young bird of the year. Similar to the adult in winter-plumage but differs on 



