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grey spotted and blotched with pale purplish grey and brown of various shades, and others being 

 ochreous grey or warm ochreous buff spotted and marked with lighter and darker reddish brown 

 and pale purplish grey. 



Totanus fuscus, the type of the genus, has the bill considerably longer than the head, 

 slender, straight, soft, and flexible at the base, becoming hard towards the point, which is 

 narrow but obtuse, both mandibles grooved to about the middle ; nostrils small, linear, basal ; 

 wings long, pointed, the first quill longest, inner secondaries elongated, tapering ; tail short, 

 slightly rounded or nearly even ; legs long, slender ; tibia bare for a considerable distance ; 

 tarsus scutellate, long, slender ; hind toe small, elevated ; anterior toes long, slender, united at 

 the base by webs, of which that between the outer and middle toe is the largest ; claws very 

 small, stout, slightly curved, very obtuse. 



