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the margins with yellowish-white, on the wings 
and long tertials these markings become more 
decided, and are often surrounded by a darker 
shade ; the grey markings on the lower parts are 
broader and more crowded, and on the breast form 
almost the prevailing colour ; the colour of the 
base of the bill and the legs is less vivid. It may 
be remarked, that several of the specimens received 
from India are in this young state of plumage. 
Gbeenshank, Totanus glottis. — Scolopax glot- 
tis,. Linn. — Le Chevalier alogeur, Temm. — Green- 
shank, Green-legged Horseman of modem British 
authors . — In Scotland, whether in summer or in 
winter, the Green shank is only a straggling visitor, 
in summer being confined to the extreme north, 
where it breeds sparingly, and in autumn or win- 
ter being met with singly, as young birds, on their 
migration from the breeding places, or in pairs. 
In the southern parts of our island it seems equally 
straggling, its nidification there being unknown, 
consequently, the autumn or winter are the only 
times when it is seen. A few years since, authentic 
accounts of its nidification in Britain were want- 
ing ; when, in the summer of 1834, several pairs 
were met with breeding by myself and Mr. Selby, 
and some others, during an excursion to Suther- 
landshire ; the season, however, being advanced, 
the young only were procured, which did not differ 
from similar states of the sandpipers, except in 
