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SCOLOPACID.E. 
GRALLA TORES. 
SCOLOPACJDjE. 
GREENSHANK. 
Totanus glottis. 
PLATE XCI. 
Dr. Macgilliyray had first the good fortune to dis¬ 
cover the eggs of the Greenshank in this country. He 
says that many individuals remain during the summer 
months near the lakes in TJist, Harris, and Lewis, and 
that—“At that season it is very easily discovered, for 
when one is, perhaps, more than a quarter of a mile 
distant, it rises into the air with clamorous cries, alarm¬ 
ing all the birds in its neighbourhood; flies round the 
place of its nest, now wheeling off to a distance, again 
advancing, and at intervals alighting by the edge of the 
lake, when it continues its cries, vibrating its body all 
the while/' 
“I once found a nest of this bird in the island of Harris. 
It was at a considerable distance from a small lake, and 
consisted of a few fragments of heath, and some blades 
of grass placed in a shallow cavity scraped in the turf in 
an exposed place, that is on a slight eminence, covered 
chiefly with moss, lichens, and some carices and short 
heath. The nest in fact resembled those of the golden 
plover, lapwings and curlew/' 
