88 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. = SaAnppiIpPer. 
Pxiare 19. Represents the Greenshank of the natural size, 
just after having assumed the winter plumage, from a | 
specimen killed in 1824 at Lennoxlove, near Hadding- 
ton in Scotland. 
eigocing Forehead, region of the eyes, throat, fore part of the neck, 
descrip- 
tion. and all the under parts, pure white. Crown of the 
a head, and sides of the neck, streaked with hair-brown. 
Sides of the breast with streaks and transverse rays of 
pale brown. Upper part of the back, wing-coverts, and — 
scapulars, deep clove-brown, with a purplish tinge, the 
feathers being margined with greyish-white. 'Tertials 
margined with white, and faintly barred with hair-brown 
of adeeper shade. Quills brownish-black ; the shafts 
of the first being white, very strong, and broad. Lower 
part of the back, and the rump, white. Tail white, 
with irregular bars of hair-brown. Bill brownish-black, 
two inches and two-eighths in length. Legs and feet 
greenish-grey. 
Hon In summer, the eye-brows and chin are white; the face, 
head, under part of the neck, breast, and sides, with 
large drop-like spots of the same colour; the rest of the 
under parts pure white. Upper part of the back is a 
mixture of black and grey, many of the feathers being 
black, with greyish-white margins, the rest ash-grey, 
marbled with pale hair-brown, having the shafts alone 
black. Greater and part of the lesser wing-coverts ash- 
grey, with darker centres. Tertials, and long feathers 
covering the quills, ash-grey, with black shafts, and 
barred upon the outer part of the webs with black and 
pale ash-grey. Lower part of the back and the rump 
white. Upper tail-coverts white, barred with hair- 
brown. ‘Tail, having the middle feathers greyish-white, 
marked with zig-zag lines and bars of pale hair-brown ; 
the outer feathers being wholly white, except a longitu- 
dinal streak of hair-brown upon the outer web. Legs 
and toes greenish-grey. . 
