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GREEN SHANK. 
CINEEEOUS GODWIT. 
Scolopax glottis , 
“ canescens , 
Totanus glottis , 
Limosa grisea , 
“ glottis , 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Pennant. Gmelin. Latham. 
Fleming. Selby. 
Brisson. 
Stephens. 
Scolopax — A Woodcock. Glottis . G/otta — A tongue — having a 
long tongue ? 
Iis - Europe, the Greenshank visits Russia and Scandinavia 
generally, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Lapland, Germany, 
France, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. In Asia, it occurs 
in Siberia, Asia Minor, and Persia, India, Java, Sunda, the 
Moluccas, and the Mauritius; and on the continent of Africa, 
in Egypt and Nubia. 
In Cornwall, W. P. Cocks, Esq., in ‘The Naturalist,’ volume 
i, page 114, records one shot at Swanpool, near Falmouth, 
in the winter of 1845. In Yorkshire two have been killed 
near Doncaster. In Norfolk it occurs in the spring in 
moderate numbers, leaving about the end of May, and is 
again found in the months of September and October. In 
Surrey one was shot at Hampton Lodge: in Cambridgeshire 
it used to occur, but since the drainage of the fens has 
become very rare. At Towyn, North Wales, one, early in 
September, 1851. One at Swanscombe, in Kent, in 1848, 
by R. 0. White, Esq. 
In Ireland, they are seen in small parties in the autumn: 
one was obtained near Louth, in October, 1845. 
In Scotland, they assemble in large numbers in the Hebrides 
—in TJist, Harris, and Lewis. They also visit Orkney in 
