TOTANUS GLOTTIS. 
(THE GREENS HANK.) 
Scoloymx glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 245 (1766). 
Scolopax canescens, Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 668 (1788). 
Totanus glottis, Bechst. Orn. Taschen. Deutschl. ii. p. 287 (1803) ; Gould, B. of Eur. iv. 
pi. 312 (1837) ; Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 265 (1849); Middendorff', Sibir. Reise, p. 213 (1853); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 265; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopcices, p. 61 (1864) ; Jerdon, B. of 
Ind. iii. p. 700 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 169 ; Newton, t. c. p. 351 ; Swinhoe, 
P. Z. S. 1871, p. 405; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 475 ; Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 431 ; 
Yon Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1169 (1874) ; Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 328 
(1874) ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 402 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1875, ix. p. 234 ; Butler & Hume, 
Str. Feath. 1876, p. 18; Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 463; Ball, ibid. vii. 
p. 229 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 304 ; Hume, ibid. 1879 (List Ind. B.) p. 113. 
Totanus glottoides, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 172 ; Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 76 (1832); Kelaart, 
Prodromus, Cat. p. 134 (1852). 
IAmosa glottoides (Vig.), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 163. 
Totanus liorsjieldi. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 573 (1846). 
Glottis glottoides (Vig.), Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 36 (1848); id. Iiandb. B. of Austr. ii. 
p. 265 (1865). 
Totanus canescens (Gm.), Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 169 ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. 
pt. 5 (1871); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 256 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 247, 
et 1874, p. 299 ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 165 (1875) ; Scully, Str. Feath. 1 876, p. 189 ; 
Armstrong, t. c. p. 344 ; Hume, t. c. p. 465. 
Cinereous Godwit, Latham ; der hellfarbige Wasserldufer, German. Mashak yamgurchi, 
Turki (Scully) ; Aoashi-chidori , Japanese (Blakiston) ; Timtimma, Tuntuna, Hind., from 
its call ; Gotra, Bengal. (Jerdon) ; Term leotan, Tamil ; Maha oliya, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 13-5 to 14-4 inches ; wing 7‘5 to 7’9 ; tail 3-3 to 3-5 ; tarsus 2-5 to 2‘7 ; 
bare tibia 1-1 to 1-4; middle toe and claw 1-5 to 1-6 ; bill to gape 2-45 to 2-5. 
Iris light brown ; bill bluish leaden at base, changing to brownish towards the tip, in some dusky plumbeous throu<>h- 
out, with the base beneath bluish ; legs and feet bluish leaden, the toes and tibia somewhat greenish, in some 
greenish blue, with the lower part of tarsus only bluish. 
Winter. Head, hind neck, upper back, scapulars, tertials, and wiug-coverts cinereous brown ; the feathers, except on 
the head and neck (where they are broadly edged with white), with dark shafts, and a row of marginal alternate 
dark and white spots, formed by the light edges being indented with darker brown than the feather : on the 
interscapular region the edgings are whitish, with an inner margin of brown ; longer scapulars and tertials over- 
cast with a greyish brown, very strong in the newly-moulted feather ; centre tail-feathers white at the base, 
washed towards the tip with ashy grey, the rest white, barred and streaked on the outer web with brown, the 
markings diminishing towards the outer feather; quills dark brown, the inner primaries and the secondaries 
finely tipped with white ; 1st primary-shaft white; forehead, supercilium, orbits, face, throat, and all beneath, 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pure white, blending into the striped neck-sides ; axillaries sparingly crossed 
with narrow brown bars, or almost pure white ; under wing-coverts white, handsomely centred with brown ; a 
series of dark spots through the lores, and another down the centre of the forehead. 
