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GREENSHANK. 



CINEEEOTJS GODWIT. 



Scolopax glottis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" canescens, PENNANT. GMULIN. LATHAM. 



Totanus glottis, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Limosa grisen, BRISSON. 



" glottis, STEPHENS. 



Scolopax A Woodcock. Glottis. Glotta A tongue having a 



long tongue? 



Itf Europe, the G-reenshank visits Russia and Scandinavia 

 generally, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Lapland, Germany, 

 France, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. In Asia, it occurs 

 in Siberia, Asia Minor, and Persia, India, Java, Sunda, the 

 Moluccas, and the Mauritius; and on the continent of Africa, 

 in Egypt and Nubia. 



In Cornwall, W. P. Cocks, Esq., in 'The Naturalist,' volume 

 i, page 114, records one shot at Swanpool, near Palmouth, 

 in the winter of 1845. In Yorkshire two have been killed 

 near Doncaster. In Norfolk it occurs in the spring in 

 moderate numbers, leaving about the end of May, and is 

 again found in the months of September and October. In 

 Surrey one was shot at Hampton Lodge: in Cambridgeshire 

 it used to occur, but since the drainage of the fens has 

 become very rare. At Towyn, North Wales, one, early in 

 September, 1851. One at Swanscombe, in Kent, in 1848, 

 by R. 0. White, Esq. 



In Ireland, they are seen in small parties in the autumn: 

 one was obtained near Louth, in October, 1845. 



In Scotland, they assemble in large numbers in the Hebrides 

 in Uist, Harris, and Lewis. They also visit Orkney in 



