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pearance, hut of a paler and yellower ground-colour. Sir 

 Wm. Jardine writes : " In a few localities, on the Scottish 

 coasts, it is stationary during the whole year; these are 

 where some suitable marsh is near for a breeding-place; in 

 this the nest is formed on, or sheltered by, some tuft or 

 bush of rank aquatic herbage, and the birds, on the approach 

 of any stranger, are very clamorous, flying about with a 

 slow, quivering flight, uttering their shrill whistle, to which 

 is now imparted an additional degree of wildness, and having 

 their bright orange legs stretched out and sometimes dan- 

 gling behind them. "We have several times procured them 

 in the breeding season, and with the young, in a marsh 

 such as we have noticed, on the banks of the Solway at 

 Southerness, where a few pairs annually breed. It has also 

 been found breeding in stations in Sutherlandshire, near 

 Lairg, and at the head of Lochnaver." " During winter 

 they are almost always to be met with on our coasts ; but 

 we have never seen them, even as stragglers, upon our 

 lochs and rivers, as the Greenshank and some other mari- 

 time Tolani frequently are/' (PL XY. fig. 94.) 



THE GREENSHANK. Totanus glottis. In Britain the 

 Greenshank is occasionally met with breeding in the north, 

 but in the south it is only seen during the autumn and 



