TOTANrS. LIMOSA. 177 



Totanus canescens. Grbenshank. 



ScolopaxcanescenSj Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 668 (1788). 



Totanus glottis, Naum. viii. p. 145, xiii. p. 343; Hewitson, 

 p. 336; Gray, p. 160; Yarr. ed. 3, ii. p. 618; id. 

 ed. 3, ii. p. 665 ; Harting, p. 46. 



Glottis chloropus, Macg. iv. p. 319. 



Glottis canescens, Gould, iv. pi. 53. 



Totanus canescens. Dresser, viii. p. 173. 



The Greenshank, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 549. 

 Canescens = becoming hoary, cdnus. 



A spring and autumnal visitant to England, breeding in 

 the north of Scotland ; found also generally in Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia. 



Genus MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. 

 & Birds in Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



Macrorhamphus = with a long beak ; from jiaKpos + pd/jL^os. 



Macrorhamphus griseus. Red-breasted Snipe. 

 Scolopax g rise a, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788). 



Macrorhamphus griseus, Macg. iv. p. 375; Gray, p. 172; 



Ya7'r. ed. 3, iii. p. 43 ; id. ed. .3, iii. p. 46 ; Gould, iv. 



pi. 76; Harting, p. 144; Dresser, viii. p. 187. 

 The Brown Snipe, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 631. 



Griseus = grey; cf. p. Ill, sijpra. 



A rare straggler to the British Islands; common in North 

 America, migrating in winter as far south as Brazil. 



Genus LIMOSA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 363 (1760). 



lAinosa, from llmosrn = muddy, from llmus, mud. 



Limosa lapponica. Bar-tailed Godwit. 



Scolopax lapponica, lAnruseus, S. N. i. p. 346 (1766). 



Limosa rufa et meyeri, Naum. viii. pp. 446 & 438, xiii. 

 pp. 346 & 347. 



