THE GREENSHANK TATLER. 
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Both sexes become darker on the upper parts, at the approach of spring. 
This dark colour disappears after their autumnal moult. 
The tongue is 1 T \ inches in length, slender, sagittate and papillate at the 
base, triangular, tapering to a fine point. On the roof of the mouth are two 
rows of large blunt papillm directed backwards ; the edges of the mandibles 
are thick and grooved ; the posterior aperture of the nares linear, r % long. 
The oesophagus, 6f inches in length, passes along the right side of the neck, 
and has a diameter of r \ of an inch in its upper part, but is dilated to T \ 
before it enters the thorax. The proventriculus is oblong, ia length, its 
glandules oblong. The stomach is oblong, 1 T \ inches in length, T 8 _ in 
breadth, its lateral muscles of moderate size, the tendons in diameter, the 
cuticular lining hard, with large longitudinal rugae, and of a deep red colour. 
The intestine 2 feet 8 inches long, varying in diameter from f A to T 2 5 . The 
rectum 1A inches long ; the coeca 4 T \ inches long, of an oblong form, with 
the extremity rounded, their diameter 
In another individual, the oesophagus is 62 inches long ; the stomach l r 9 2 ; 
the intestine 2 feet 3 inches ; the rectum 1 T 9 5 , the coeca 4 T V, their diameter ^j. 
The trachea, 4 T 8 2 inches long, in diameter above, fV below ; of 120 un- 
ossified rings ; its contractor muscles feeble, the sterno-tracheal moderate ; 
a single pair of inferior laryngeal ; the bronchial rings about 15. 
THE GREENSHANK TATLER. 
Totanus Glottis, Linn. 
PLATE CCOXLYI.— Male. 
While on Sand Key, which is about six miles distant from Cape Sable of 
the Floridas, in lat. 24° 57' north, and 81° 45' long, west of Greenwich, I 
shot three birds of this species on the 28th of May, 1832. I had at first 
supposed them to be Tell-tale Godwits, as they walked on the bars and into 
the shallows much in the same manner, and, on obtaining them, imagined 
they were new ; but on shewing them to my assistant Mr. Ward, who was 
acquainted with the Greenshank of Europe, he pronounced them to be of 
that species, and I have since ascertained the fact by a comparison of speci- 
mens. They were all male birds, and I observed no material difference in 
