92 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
BARRED-RUMPED GODWIT 
Vetola lapponica baueri 
This species is another large Asiatic Wader, the male 
iJ^i inches long, the female a couple of inches longer ; 
the former's bill is about 3-i- inches, the latter's nearly 
4i inches. The tail is regularly barred with black 
and white. Two specimens in the Geelong Museum, 
male and female, were shot by Mr. Mulder at Point 
Henry in November, 1886. Again in 1888 the birds 
were very plentiful, Mr. A. J. Campbell in that year 
seeing scores of them for sale in the Melbourne 
markets. In the Geelong district these birds are still 
occasionally seen at Connewarre Lakes and the 
Salterns, but must now be classed as rare. 
GREENSHANK 
Glottis nehularius glottoides 
Graceful and light of build, tall, with beautiful 
grey-mottled plumage on the upper parts and pure 
white under surface and rump, the latter particularly 
noticeable in flight away from the observer, the 
" Silver Snipe," as the market-shooters call it, is one 
of the easiest recognised of our Asiatic visitors. Some- 
times its inclinations are solitary — the first I ever saw 
was standing alone and motionless by a little salt-pool 
in the Samphire Marsh behind the Rifle Butts. 
More often it is met with in flocks of from six to 
