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116. GREENSHANK. Totanus canescens, Gmelin. 

 French, "Chevalier gris," "Chevalier aboyeur." 

 The Greenshank can only be considered a rare 

 occasional visitant. I have never shot or seen it 

 myself in the Islands, but Miss C. B. Carey records 

 one in the ' Zoologist ' for 1872 as having been shot 

 on the 2nd of October of that year, and brought to 

 Mr. Couch's, at whose shop she saw it. 



The Greenshank is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, but there is no letter to note which of the 

 Islands it has occurred in. There is no specimen 

 in the Museum. 



117. KUFF. Machetes pugnax, Linnaeus. French, 

 "Combatant," "Combatant variable." The Buff is 

 an occasional but not very common autumn and 

 winter visitant ; it occurs, probably, more frequently 

 in the autumn than the winter. Mr. MacCulloch 

 writes me, " I have a note of a Kuff shot in October, 

 1871." This probably was, like all the Guernsey 

 specimens I have seen, a young bird of the year 

 in that state of plumage in which it leads to all 

 sorts of mistakes, people wildly supposing it to be 

 either a Buff-breasted or a Bartram's Sandpiper. 

 Miss C. B. Carey records one in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for 1871 as shot in September of that year; this 

 was a young bird of the year. Miss C. B. Carey 

 also records two in the 'Zoologist' for 1872 as 

 having been shot about the 13th of April in that 



