TOTANUS GLOTTIS. 



(THE GREENSHANK.) 



Scolopax glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 245 (1766). 



Scolopax canescens, Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 668 (1788). 



Totanus glottis, Bechst. Orn. Taschen.' Deutschl. ii. p. 287 (1803); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. 

 pi. 312 (1837) ; Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 

 p. 265 (1849); Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, p. 213 (1853); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 265; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 01 (1864) ; Jcrdon, B. of 

 Ind. iii. p. 700 (1864); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 169; Newton, t.c. p. 351 ; Swinhoe, 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 405 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 475 ; Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 431 ; 

 Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1169 (1874) ; Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 328 

 (1874) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 402 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1875, ix. p. 234 ; Butler & Hume, 

 Str. Feath. 1876, p. 18; Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 463; Ball, ibid. vii. 

 p. 229 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 304 ; Hume, ibid. 1879 (List Ind. B.) p. 113. 



Totanus glottoides, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 172 ; Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 76 (1832); Kelaart, 

 Prodromus, Cat. p. 134 (1852). 



Limosa glottoides (Vig.), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 163. 



Totanus horsfieldi, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 573 (1846). 



Glottis glottoides (Vig.), Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 36 (1848) ; id. Handb. B. of Austr. ii. 

 p. 265 (1865). 



Totanus canescens (Gm.), Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 169 ; Sbarpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. 

 pt. 5 (1871); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 256 (1S72) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 247, 

 et 1874, p. 299 ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 165 (1875) ; Scully, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 189 ; 

 Armstrong, t. c. p. 344 ; Hume, t. c. p. 465. 



Cinereous Godwit, Latham ; der hellfarbige Wasserldufcr, German. Mashak i/amgurchi, 

 Turki (Scully) ; Aoashi-chidori, Japanese (Blakiston) ; Timtimma, Tuntuua, Hind., from 

 its call ; Gotra, Bengal. (Jerdon) ; Teria Jcotan, Tamil ; Malta oliya, Sinhalese. 



Adult mull' ami female (Ceylon). Length 13*5 to 14-4 inches ; wing 7'5 to 7'9 ; tail 3 - 3 to 3-5 ; tarsus 2 - 5 to 2 - 7; 

 bare tibia 1"1 to 1*4; middle toe and claw 1-5 to 1*6 ; bill to gape 2-45 to 2'5. 



Iris light brown ; bill bluish leaden at base, changing to brownish towards the tip, in some dusky plumbeous through- 

 out, with the base beneath bluish ; legs and feet bluish leaden, the toes and tibia somewhat greenish, in some 

 greenish blue, with the lower part of tarsus only bluish. 



Winter. Head, hind neck, upper back, scapulars, tertials, and wing-coverts cinereous brown ; the feathers, except on 

 the head and neck (where they are broadly edged with white), with dark shafts, and a row of marginal alternate 

 dark and white spots, formed by the light edges being indented with darker brown than the feather: on the 

 interscapular region the edgings are whitish, with an inner margin of brown; longer scapulars and tertials over- 

 cast with a greyish brown, very strong in the newly-moulted feather ; centre tail-feathers white at the base, 

 washed towards the tip with ashy grey, the rest white, barred and streaked on the outer web with brown, the 

 markings diminishing towards the outer feather ; quills dark brown, the inner primaries and the secondaries 

 finely tipped with white ; 1st primary-shaft white; forehead, supercilium, orbits, face, throat, and all beneath, 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pure white, blending into the striped neck-sides ; axillaries sparingly crossed 

 with narrow brown bars, or almost pure white ; under wing-coverts white, handsomely centred with brown ; a 

 series of dark spots through the lores, and another down the centre of the forehead. 



