94 TOTANIX.E. TOTANUS. 



black at the base, white toward the end. In winter, the up- 

 per part of the head and hind-neck brownish-grey ; the fore 

 part of the back greyish-brown, streaked with dusky, its hind 

 part white ; the tail and its coverts barred with white and 

 dusky grey ; the fore part and sides of the neck pale grey, 

 streaked with dusky, as are the sides, the rest of the lower 

 parts white. In summer, the cheeks and fore-neck greyish- 

 white, streaked with dusky, the rest of the lower parts white, 

 the sides with angular dusky markings ; the upper parts of a 

 deeper tint than in winter. Young with the base of the up- 

 per mandible dusky, the feet orange, the upper parts brown, 

 the feathers margined with yellowish, the hind part of the 

 back white, but streaked with dusky. 



Male, 12, 22, 6J, 1 T V, l|i, 1-& iV 



Generally dispersed along the shores in winter, chiefly fre- 

 quenting muddy and sandy places. It often wades into the 

 water in quest of food, for which it also probes the sand and 

 mud ; is suspicious and vigilant, remarkably active and voci- 

 ferous ; has a rapid, wavering flight ; and, when standing, is 

 continually vibrating its body. In summer, it frequents in- 

 land marshes and pools, forms its slight nest in a hollow, and 

 lays four pyriform eggs, an inch and seven-twelfths in length, 

 an inch and two-twelfths in breadth, pale greenish-grey, spot- 

 ted and blotched with reddish-brown and blackish-brown. 

 The flesh of this bird not being inferior to the Godwits and 

 Sandpipers, it is often seen in the markets. 



Pool Snipe. Sandcock. Redshank. Bed-legged Snipe. 



Scolopax Calidris and Gambetta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 245, 

 248. Scolopax Calidris, Gambetta, and Tringa striata, Lath. 

 Ind. Ornith. ii. 728, 733. Totanus Calidris, Temm. Man. 

 d'Ornith. ii. 643. Totanus Calidris, Grey Redshank Tattler, 

 MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 



199. TOTANUS OCHROPUS. GREEN TATTLER. 

 Bill dusky above, reddish below ; feet greyish-blue, tinged 

 with green ; tail nearly even, white, the four middle feathers 

 with three blackish-brown bars toward the end, the outer- 

 most feather plain ; upper part of head and hind-neck brown- 

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

 brown, with marginal whitish and dusky spots ; rump white ; 

 neck greyish-white, with longitudinal dusky lines; breast 

 and abdomen white ; lower wing coverts, axillars, and some 

 of the hypochondria! feathers angularly barred with brown ; 

 bill dusky above, reddish beneath ; feet greyish-blue tinged 



