Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 
Family 8C0WFAC1BM, 
No. 192. 
ILIORNIS STAGNATILIS HORSFIELDII. 
LITTLE GREENSHANK. 
(Plate 149.)* 
Limosa horsfieldh Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1832, p. 163 ; Dukhun, India. 
lAmosa horsfieldii Sykes, Proc Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1832, p, 163. 
Totanus lathami Gray and Hardwicke, lU. Ind. Zool., Vol. II., pi. 51, fig. 3, 1834 (India). 
Glottis horsfieldii Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 99, 1844. 
Totanus horsfieldii id., Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 573, 1846. 
Totanus stagnatilis (not Bechstein) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 37, 1848 (New South 
Wales) ; Middendorff Sibirische Reise, Vol. II., p. 214, 1851 ; Radde, Reisen Suden 
von Ost-Sibir., p. 328, 1863 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 267, 1865 ; 
Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 357, 1887 ; Salvador!, Omith. Papua, e Mol., 
Vol. III., p. 324, 1882 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; Legge, Proc. 
Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 947, 1892 ; Taczanowski, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. 
Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 864, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 422, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 1899 ; Keartland, 
Birds Melb. Distr., p. 116, 1900 (Victoria) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, p. 810, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 26, 1908. 
Tringa stagnatilis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 221, 1912. 
Distribution. Lower Siberia (breeding), migrating southwards to Australia in winter. 
Adult male, in breeding-plumage. Mantle and back ash-grey with dark shaft-lines and 
arrow-head black blotches ; some of the long scapulars irregularly marked and barred 
with black, the long innermost secondaries similarly marked ; lesser and greater 
wing-coverts dark brown, the latter tipped with white ; some of the median coverts 
blotched with black like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills dark 
brown, the shaft of the outer primary white, the inner primaries paler and margined 
with white like the secondaries ; lower-back and rump pure white ; upper tail-coverts 
and middle tail-feathers white, barred with brown, the outer feathers with irregular 
dark lines on the outer margins ; head and hind-neck grey, minutely streaked 
with black ; sides of face, throat, and breast white, sparsely spotted and streaked 
with black more coarsely on the sides of the breast and sides of body, sometimes 
taking the form of bars on the latter ; remainder of under-surface white with a few 
dark narrow streaks on the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
also white ; lower primary-coverts grey, fringed with white. 
* The PJate is lettered Tringa stagnatilis. 
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