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brane, but there is scarcely any indication of a web between 
the latter and the base of the inner toe. 
Only one species of the genus Glottis is known. 
I. THE GREEN-SHANK. GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS. 
Scolopax nebuiarius, Gunner. Leem. I.app. Beschr. p. 251 
(1767). 
Glottis chloropvs, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 319 (1852). 
Totanus canescens, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 173, ph 57° (1871) ; 
B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 177 (1883); Saunders, ed. 
Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 483 (1884) ; id. Man. Brit. B. p. 
60s (1889). 
Totanus glottis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 149, pi. 29 
(1885). 
Glottis nebularius, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 481 
(1896). 
Adult Male in Winter Plumage. — General colour above ashy- 
brown, mottled with whitish edges to the feathers, which are 
freckled and sub-tcrminally lined with darker brown, the shafts 
being also well marked ; scapulars clearer ashy-grey, wiih an 
interrupted sub-terminal line of blackish-brown; lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts, pure white ; e.xterior wing-coverts 
uniform blackish-brown ; median and greater coverts lighter 
brown, fringed with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
quills blackish, the latter fringed with white at the end of the 
inner web ; the secondaries ashy-brown, edged with white, the 
long innermost secondaries spotted with black on the margins ; 
tail-feathers white, the centre ones crossed with regular but 
somewhat interrupted bars of brown, the other feathers with a 
few broken spots and bars of brown on the outer web ; crown 
of head and hind-neck greyish-brown, the feathers edged with 
white, im| arting a streaked appearance, more marked on the 
head ; forehead, lores, and sides of face pure white ; the sides 
of the neck narrowly streaked with ashy-brown, as well as the 
upper margins of the ear-coverts ; entire under surface of body 
pure white; sides of upper breast irregularly freckled with 
brown ; under wing-coverts white, with a sub-terminal bar of 
brown, or a central arrow-head line of the latter colour ; axillaries 
white, with a few remains of brewn spots; lower primary- 
