CHARADRIID&. 619 
THE GREENSHANK. 
TOTANUS CANESCENS (J. F. Gmelin). 
The Greenshank occurs annually, though in smali numbers, on 
the shores and many of the inland waters of Great Britain during 
the spring and autumn migrations, but it is not very often met 
with in December or January. In Ireland, however, it remains 
through the winter (especially in cos. Mayo and Cork), until the 
spring, after which its absence is very brief, inasmuch as some 
birds appear again early in July, while the majority have arrived 
by the end of that month (R. Warren). In Scotland it was dis- 
covered nesting by Macgillivray in the Outer Hebrides, where a few 
pairs are still to be found, as they are in Skye and some of the Inner 
islands ; but on the mainland its breeding-range is increasing, 
especially in the Moray area, and extends over portions of Caithness, 
Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, Argyll, and the north of Perthshire, while 
Mr. Service thinks that a few pairs inhabit the Galloway hills. The 
Greenshank has never been known to breed in the Orkneys, and 
Saxby’s statements respecting the finding of its eggs in Shetland 
remain uncorroborated. 
This species is a regular summer-visitor to the fells and morasses 
of Scandinavia, Northern Russia, and Siberia up to about lat. 60° N. 
