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BRITISH BIRDSo 
GREENSHANK, 
GREEN-SHANKED GODWIT, OR GREEN-LEGGED HORSE- 
MAN. 
[Scolopax glottis j Lin . — La Barge varieci BufF.) 
The Greenfliankis of a flender and elegant fliape, 
and its weight fmall in proportion to its length and 
dimenfions, being only about fix ounces, although 
it meafures from the tip of its beak to the end of its 
tail fourteen inches, and to the toes twenty ; and 
from tip to tip of the wings, twenty-five. The bill 
is about two inches and a half long, ftrait and 
flender, the upper mandible black, the under red- 
difli at its bafe. The upper parts of its plumage 
are. pale brownifli afh-colour, but each feather is 
marked down the fliaft v/ith a glofly bronze brown; 
the under parts, and rump, are of a pure white : a 
