I 86 BRITISH BIRDS. 



315. Totanus flavipes (GmeL). YELLOWSHANK. 

 Hab. Arctic America. Wintering in S. America. 

 One has been shot in Cornwall (1871), and another in 



Leeds Museum is said to have been killed previously 

 (1854-5) in Lincolnshire. 



GENUS CLXXX. GLOTTIS, Koch (1816). 

 Differs chiefly from Totanus in having the bill very 

 slightly up-curved. 



316. Glottis eaneseens (GmeL). GREENSHANK. 

 Hab. Northern Palasarctic region. 



Adult : feathers of back and wings dark brown, with 

 blackish centres and greyish-white edges ; head and nape 

 greyish-white, with blackish streaks ; rump white ; tail 

 white, irregularly barred with dusky-brown ; under parts 

 white, spotted with blackish on throat and breast and 

 slightly barred on sides ; bill blackish, paler at base ; tarsi 

 greyish-green. In winter paler and greyer above and 

 almost unspotted white below. Length 11*75 ; wing 7*25. 



A regular but not abundant migrational visitor ; some- 

 times remaining through the winter. Some numbers 

 remain to breed in the Highlands and Hebrides. 



GENUS CLXXXI. MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach (1816). 



317. Maerorhamphus griseus (Gmel.), RED-BREASTED 



SNIPE. 



Hab. Arctic America. In winter reaching S. America. 



About a dozen have been killed irt England, two in 

 Scotland and one in Ireland. 



31 7a. M. griseus seolopaeeus (Say). LONG-BILLED 



SNIPE. 



Hab. Western Arctic America. 

 An example received by Mr. Coburn, of Birmingham, 



