SCOLOPACIM:. - 325' 



parts are white, or less shaded with grey, and marked with 

 decided dusky streaks, spots, and angular bars ; fWt and 

 legs, orange-red in life. Length, 11". 3'"; vviug, t>" tf"; 

 tail, 2" 10'". 



The " Eed-Sharik " and " Green Sandpiper " are found sparingly 

 about the Knysna estuary, and the mouth of the Salt .River, near 

 Cape Town, in both of which places I have shot them. I also detected 

 them among some birds shot by Messrs. Chapman on Lake N'Grami. 

 At Zoetendals Vley they were abundant in November. 



612. TotanUS OchrOpUS. (Linn.) Temminck, PL 

 Enl. 843 ; Totanus Leucurus, Gray ; The Green 

 Sandpiper, Bewick's Brit. Birds, p. 99. 



TAIL, nearly even, white ; the four middle feathers with 

 three blackjsh-brown bars toward the end, the outermost 

 feather plain ; upper part of head and hind-neck, brownish- 

 grey ; back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, greenish-brown, 

 with marginal whitish and dusky spots ; neck greyish-white, 

 with longitudinal dusky lines ; the breast and abdomen 

 white ; lower wing-coverts, axillars, and some of the hypo- 

 chondrial feathers, angularly barred with brown ; bill dusky 

 above, reddish beneath; feet greyish-blue, tinged with green. 

 Length, 11" 6'"; wing, 5" 11"'; tail, 2" 6'". 



Several examples of this bird have been received from Mr. Arnot, 

 procured near Colesberg ; also common at Zoetendals Vley in Novem- 

 ber, 1865, and at the Knysna. 



613. TotanUS Glottis. (Linn.) Bechstein ; Limosa 

 Gi-isea, Briss. ; Scolopax Glottis, Linn. ; The Green- 

 Shank, Bewick's Brit Birds, p. 108. 



ADULT, in winter, with the bill greenish-brown at the base, 

 black towards the end ; the feet greenish-grey ; the head, 

 hind part and sides of neck, greyish-white, streaked with 

 brown ; the fore part of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, 

 greyish-brown, the feathers ed^ed with whitish ; hind par 

 of the back, the fore part of the face, and all the lower parts, 

 white, but with faint grey markings on the fore part of the 

 sides, and on the lower wing-coverts ; tail white, barred with 

 greyish-brown. Adult, in summer, with the fore-neck and 

 breast marked with oblong black spots ; the fore part of the 

 back and the scapulars, black, the feathers margined with 

 whitish. Length, 14" 3'" ; wing, 7" 6'" ; tail, 3" 2'". 



Common with the preceding specie*, and found also on all vleys 

 throughout the country. 



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