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and the upper mandible being arched a little towards 

 the point. Their shape is light, and theu' legs high. 

 The thumb scarcely touches the ground. Their 

 external palmation is very marked. The species are 

 found almost through the entire globe. 



Green-shank Snipe. Scol. Glottis, L. Albin. II. 69. 

 Aldrov. Ornith. III. 5S5. Brit. Zool. pi. c. 1. 



As large as a godwit, with large and strong biU ; 

 ashen-brown above, and on the sides, with borders 

 of feathers punctated with brown ; beUy and rump, 

 white; tail narrowly and irregularly striped grey 

 and white ; legs green. In summer there are brown 

 spots on the neck and breast ; in winter it is white 

 all under the body. It is the largest of the 

 European species. 



The Totanus Fistulans, Bechst. Tot. Griseus, 

 Bechst. Limacula Glottis, Leach. Glottis ChloropiiSt 

 Wilson, and the Cinerioits Godwit, Penn., appear to 

 be varieties of it. 



Dusky Snipe. Barge Brune, Buff. Enl. 87^. Sco- 

 lopax JFusca, Lin. Frisch. 236. 



Slender-shaped, like a godwit ; in summer, blackish- 

 brown above, slate coloured underneath, with fea- 

 thers bordered or pointed at the edges with whitish ; 

 rump white, and tad radiated with brown and white ; 

 two characters which are found more or less in all 

 the species of totanus; feet reddish-brown. In 

 winter it becomes white on the breast and belly. 



