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BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRES. 
Totanu:^. 
ZooL ii. 430 — N. Pheop. Temm. Orn. ii. 604 — Curlew Knot, Curlew- 
Jack, Half Curlew ; ?F, Coeg ylfinhir. — Breeds in Zetland. 
Length 18, breadth 33 inches; weight 14 ounces. BiU 3^ inches long, 
dusky, tinged with red at the base : feet gre}dsh. In general aspect and plu- 
mage bearing a near resemblance to the Curlew. Female like the male — Nest 
in exposed heaths in Zetland (where the bird is called Tang-whaap). Eggs 4 
or 5. After the breeding-season, this bird nearly disappears from the northern 
islands, but frequents, during winter, the English shores, associating in small 
flocks. 
STRAGGLERS. 
Ihis falcinellus. Glossy Ibis Temm. Orn. ii. 596. — This bird, readily 
distinguished from the Curlews by the naked face, has occurred, as a strag- 
gler, repeatedly, in England. Montagu, in his Supplement, records seve- 
ral instances, and states it as his opinion, in which he is followed by Tem- 
minck, that the Bay Ibis {Tantalus Faldnellus., Sowerby’s Brit. Misc. tab. 
xvii.), the Glossy Ibis ( T. igneus., including T. guara.una and the Green 
Ibis (T. viridisj, are merely different states of plumage, depending on 
age, of the same species, — the Green Ibis being the yo'ung bird. The Ibis 
is adopted as part of the arms of the Town of Liverpool, and formerly, if 
not at present, stood consincuous on the Guildhall in truly golden array. 
This is termed the Liver., from which that flourishing town derived its name, 
and is now standing on the spot where the Fool was, on the verge of which 
the Liver was killed,”— 
Gen. LXVIL TOTANUS.— Bili soft at the base, firm, 
with cutting edges towards the point. Upper mandible a 
little inflected over the under. Legs long, slender. The 
first quill longest. 
138. T.fuscus. — Base of the lowest mandible and feet red ; 
rump white ; tail-covers with cross black and white rays. 
Cambridge Godwit, Penrt. Brit. Zool. ii. 446 — S])otted Snipe, Mont Orn. 
Diet, and Suppl — Totanus fuscus, Temm. Orn. ii. 639. — On the coast 
during winter. 
Length 12, breadth 22 inches ; weight 5 ounces. Bill upwards of 2 inches 
in length, black, the base of the lower mandible and the feet red. Face and 
plumage above, dusky; back, wing-covers and scapulars with white spots; 
beneath, dusky tinged with grey, the tips of the feathers white. In winter, 
the plumage, above, has a greyish tinge ; below, white : lores dusky — Young 
birds have the plumage with a tinge of olive-brown ; scapulars and wing co- 
vers with triangular black spots : belly Avhitish, with zig-zag lines and spots 
of brownish-ash. 
139. T. calidris. Redshank. — Base of both mandibles red; 
distal half of the secondaries white. 
Gallina erythropus. Will. Orn. 221. Sibb* Scot. 19. — Scolopax calidris, 
Linn. Syst. i. 245. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 446. — Tot. cal, Temm. Orn. ii. 
643. — Resident. 
Length 12, breadth 21 inches ; weight 5 ounces. BiU 2 inches long, black 
at the point, the base, together with the feet, red. Irides chesnut. Lores 
w^hite. Above, groyish olive-brown, with longitudinal black rays ; on the sca- 
pulars there are a feAv transverse black raA'^s. Rump Avhite. Sides of the neck 
and beneath -white, wdth a longitudinal black spot on the centre of each feather- 
