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GREEN TOTANUS. 
regular breeding stations seem scarcely to be 
mentioned with sufficient authenticity. Out of 
Europe, India* and Japanf have boen given to it ; 
but we have no representative placed opposite in 
the Prince of Canino’s comparative list ; T. chlo- 
ropigius occupying the representing placo of the 
next. Nevertheless, it may be occasionally found 
in North America, as it is stated in the Northern 
Zoology, that an individual “ exists among a 
collection of birds from the fur countries, sent 
to the British Museum by the Hudson’s Bay 
Company.” 
In the specimen alluded to, as killed at Jardine 
Hall in winter, the head and napo, with a narrow 
streak above the rictus, are clove-brown ; between 
the base of the bill, reaching half way over each eye, 
is a triangular patch of white ; all the other upper 
parts, except the tail-coverts, are blackish-green, 
tinted with brown, and with a bronzed and glossy 
lustre, each feather being marked on the outer 
webs with small triangular spots of dusky-white, 
relieved by a darker shade interiorly ; the quills 
are greenish-black, having the shafts of the sanje 
colour ; the rump is of a greyer tint than the 
upper parts ; tail-coverts pure white ; the tail 
white, the centre feathers to the third from the 
outside having three distinct broad black bars 
* Colonel Sykes. By Mr. Jerdan, in liis Catalogue of the 
Birds of tlie Peninsula of India, the Green Totanus is intro 
duced. 
+ Temminck, ii. p. 392. 
