622 SCOLOPACID^E. 



This bird visits Russia, and has been found in Germany, 

 on the banks of the Rhine ; is occasionally obtained in Hol- 

 land, but only seen on its passage in France, Provence, 

 Switzerland, and Italy. It is observed also in spring and 

 autumn at Corfu, Sicily, Malta and Crete. Mr. Strick- 

 land says it visits Smyrna in winter, and he obtained a 

 specimen, but it was considered rare. The Zoological 

 Society have received specimens from Trebizond, by favour 

 of Keith Abbott, Esq. M. Julian Desjardins communi- 

 cated to the Zoological Society, in 1833, a description of 

 this bird taken from a specimen killed in Mauritius : the 

 bird not being known to have previously occurred in the 

 island. There is but little doubt that the species found in 

 various parts of Asia, and described under the term glottoides, 

 is our Greenshank. Dr. Horsfield includes the Greenshank 

 in his catalogue of the Birds of Java; and M. Temminck 

 remarks, that the examples of this bird received by 

 him from the island of Sunda, and the Moluccas, in every 

 respect resemble those of Europe, but are always in the 

 plumage of winter. Montagu, in his Ornithological Dic- 

 tionary, said that this bird had been observed in America, 

 in the province of New York ; and Mr. Audubon has since 

 found it in Florida. 



The beak of the Greenshank is about two inches long, 

 nearly black, and very slightly curved upwards ; the irides 

 hazel ; the upper part of the head, the cheeks, the neck on 

 the sides and behind, marked with well defined dark lines, 

 on a ground colour of greyish white ; the back, wing- 

 coverts, and tertials, ash brown, edged with buiFy white ; 

 quill-primaries uniform dusky black ; tail-feathers white, 

 those in the middle barred transversely, the outer feathers 

 striped longitudinally with ash brown ; chin white ; front 

 of the neck to the breast, and the sides, under the wings, 



