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GREEXSHANK. 
having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown 
tint, giving these parts a patched or irregularly 
marked appearance, in which the masses of black 
were conspicuous ; the long tertial feathers were 
hair-brown, paler and with a grey tint on the 
edges, having the shafts, and a series of diagonal 
bars, which lose themselves before reaching the 
centre, dark clove-brown ; the shoulders and quills 
are greyish-black, the inner webs of the latter 
shading to a paler tint, and the shaft of the first 
only being white ; the centre of the back, the 
rump, and upper tail-coverts, pure white; tail of 
the same colour, except the centre feathers, which 
are tinted with a brownish-grey ; the whole irre- 
gularly, and in a broken manner, barred with 
clove-brown ; all the under parts are pure white ; 
the sides of the neck streaked along the centre of 
each feather with greyish-black ; the feathers on 
the middle of the neck, and on the breast, being 
marked with an oval spot of the same colour, 
which marking extends irregularly downwards on 
the sides and flanks, taking on the latter the form 
of bars, and leaving the centre of the belly and 
vent very pure ; the axillary feathers are narrowly 
waved across with hair-brown. In a specimen 
shot upon the Annan, in winter, there is a much 
greater mixture of white on the crown and back 
of the neck, and the dark markings are not so 
deep, the whole appearance being of a greyish 
tint ; on the back, tertials, and wings, the colour 
is a greyish hair-brown, each feather edged with 
