Class II. GREEN SHANK. 445 



Limofa, et glottis. Gefner a<v. Scolopax glottis. Lin.fyft. 245. 183. Green 



ciq, 520. Glut. Faun. Suec. Jp. 171. Shank, 



Piviero. Aldr. av. III. 207. Pivier Maggiore. Zinan. 102. 



Greater Plover of Aldro-vand. Nor-uegis Hoeft-Fugl. 167. 

 Wil. or 11. 298. Brunnich. 



Raiifyn. av. 106. Br. Zool. 121. 



Tfchoket. Scopoli, No. 137. 



THESE birds are not fo common as the for- 

 mer : appearing on our coafts and wet 

 grounds in the v/inter time in fmall flocks. The Descrip, 

 length to the end of the tail is fourteen inches, to 

 that of the toes twenty ; its breadth twenty-five. 

 The bill is two inches and a half long : the upper 

 mandible black, ftrait, and very flender ; the lower 

 reflects a little upwards : the head and upper part 

 of the neck are afh-colored, marked with fmall 

 dufky lines pointing down : over each eye paries 

 a white line : the coverts of the wings, the fcapu- 

 lars, and upper part of the back are of a brown- 

 ifh. afh-color : the quil-feathers dulky, but the in- 

 ner webs fpeckled with white: the bread, belly, 

 thighs, and lower part of the back are white : the 

 tail white, marked with undulated dufky bars : 

 the inner coverts of the wings finely crofTed with 

 double and treble rows of a dufky color. 



It is a bird of an elegant ihape, and fmall weight 

 in proportion to its dimenfions, weighing only fix 

 ounces. 



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