Class II, GREENSHANK SNIPE. 



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Scolopax Glottis. Sc. griseo- 

 fusca maculis nigricantibus 

 varia, superciliis dorso infimo 

 corporeque subtus albis, rec- 

 tricibus albis fasciis fuscis. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 720. id. Syn. 

 V. 147. id. Sup. i. 249. 



Lomosa, et glottis. Gesner av. 

 519, 520. 



Piviero. Aldr. av. iii. 207. 



Greater Plover of Aldrovand. 

 Wil. orn. 298. 



Rail Syn. av. 106. 



La Barge variee. Hist. dois. 



vii 603. 

 Scolopax glottis. Gm. Lin, 



664. 

 Glut. Faun. Suec. sp. I71. 

 Pivier Maggiore. Zinan. 102. 

 Norvegis Hoest-Fugl. 167. 



Brunnich. 

 Tschoket. 5'copoZi, No. 137. 

 Br. Zool. 121. Tab. C. 1. 



Arct, Zool. ii. 173. 



7. Green- 

 shank. 



XHESE birds appear on our coasts and wet 

 grounds in the winter time, in small flocks. 

 The length to the end of the tail is fourteen Descrip- 

 inches, to that of the toes twenty; the breadth "^^°^' 

 twenty-five. The bill is two inches and a half 

 long; the upper mandible black, strait, and very 

 slender, the lower reflects a little upwards ; the 

 head and upper part of the neck are ash-color- 

 ed, marked with small dusky lines pointing 

 downwards; over each eye passes a white line; 

 the coverts of the wings, the scapulars, and 

 upper part of the back, are of a brownish ash- 

 color; the quil feathers dusky, but the inner 

 webs speckled with Avhite ; the breast, the belly, 

 thighs, and lower part of the back are white; 

 the tail white, marked with undulated dusky 



