356 GREEN SHANK. Clafs IV 



V. The GREEN SHANK. 



Limofa, et glottis. Gefner av. Scolopax glottis. Lin.fyji. 245^ 



519, 52O. Glut. Faun. Suec.fp. 17I. 



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



Greater Plover of Aldrovand. Norwgis Hoeft-Fugl. 167. Brun- 

 Wil orn. 298. nich. 



Raiifyn. av. 106. Br. Zool. 12 1. 



'"TpHESE birds are not fo common as the former: 

 •** appearing on our coails and wet grounds in the 

 Defer, winter time in fmall flocks. The 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 

 (lender •, 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 fca- 

 pulars, and upper part of the back are of a brownifh 

 afh-color : the quil-feathers dufky, but the inner webs 

 fpeckied with white : the breaft, belly, thighs, and 

 lower part of the back are white: the tail white, 

 marked with undulated duiky bars : the inner coverts 

 of the wings finely croiTed with double and treble. 

 rows of a dufky color. 



ft is a bird of an elegant fhape, and fmall weight 

 in proportion to its dimenfions, weighing only fix, 

 ounces. 



The legs are very long and (lender, bare above 

 two inches higher than the knees. The exterior toe 

 is united no the middle toe, as far as the fecond joint, 



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