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TOTANINJE. TOTANUS. 
flies with great speed, vibrates its body continually when j 
standing, and is remarkably vociferous, shy, and ready to take 
alarm, as well as to spread it among the birds around. 
Greenshank. Greenshank Snipe. Green-legged Horse- 
man. I 
Scolopax Glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 245. — Scolopax Glot- 
tis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 720, — Totanus Glottis, Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. ii. 659.— Glottis Chloropus, Green-legged 
Longshank, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
GENUS CIY. TOTANUS. TATTLER. 
The Tattlers differ from the Longshanks chiefly in having 
the bill and legs considerably shorter, and the former quite j 
straight. The body is ovate, rather slender ; the neck ra- 
fher long, and slender ; the head small, oblong, compressed, j 
with the forehead considerably rounded. Bill about a third 
longer than the head, straight, very slender, soft and flexible 
at the base, hard and elastic toward the end ; upper man- 
dible with the ridge convex, the sides grooved to beyond I 
the middle, the edges thick, with a linear groove, the tip 
slightly declinate, narrowed, blunt, and a little exceeding ; 
the other ; lower mandible with the angle long and extremely 
narrow, the sides grooved to the middle, the dorsal line 
straight, or very slightly concave, the edges thick and I] 
grooved, the tip narrowed, and a little obtuse. Mouth very 
narrow ; tongue linear, channelled above, acute ; oesophagus 
narrow ; pro ventriculus oblong ; gizzard rather large, oblong, j 
with strong lateral muscles, and rugous epithelium ; coeca of 
moderate length, cylindrical. Nostrils small, linear, basal. \ 
Eyes rather small. Aperture of ear roundish, and rather 1 
small. Feet long, very slender ; tibia bare to a considerable 
extent ; tarsus with numerous broad scutella before, scutel- 
late behind also ; toes small, the first diminutive and ele- 
vated ; the anterior toes with basal webs, of which the outer 
is larger ; claws small, compressed, slightly curved, obtuse. 
Plumage very soft and blended ; wings long, pointed, with 
twenty-five quills ; the first primary longest, the rest rapidly 
graduated ; secondaries incurved, the inner elongated and 
tapering ; tail short, rounded, of twelve narrow, rounded i 
feathers. 
