History of British animals - University of Guam Marine Laboratory

102 BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRES. Totanus.Zool. ii. 430—N. Pheop. Temm. Orn. ii. tl(>4— E, Curlew Knot, CurlewJack, Half Curlew ; W, Coeg ylfinhir—Breeds in Zetland.Length 18, breadth 33 inches; weight 14 ounces. Bill 3 J inches long,dusky, tinged with red at the base feet : greyish. In general aspect and plumagebearing a near resemblance to the Curlew. Female male.— like the Nestin exposed heaths in Zetland (where the bird is called Tang-whaap). Eggs 4or 5. After the breeding-season, this bird nearly disappears from the northernislands, but frequents, during winter, the English shores, associating in smallflocks.STltACCiLERS.Ibis faldnellus. Glossy Ibis Temm. Orn. ii. 5UG This bird, readilydistinguished from the Curlews by the naked face, has occurred, as a straggler,repeatedly, in England. Montagu, in his Supplement, records severalinstances, and states it as his opinion, in which he is followed by Ternminck,that the Bay Ibis (Tantalus Faldnellus, Sowerby's Brit. Misc. tab.xvii.), the Glossy Ibis (T. ignevs, including T. guaraunaj, and the GreenIbis (T. viridis), are merely different states of plumage, depending onage, species,— of the same the Green Ibis being the young bird. " The Ibisis adopted as part of the arms of the Town of Liverpool, and formerly, ifnot at present, stood conspicuous on the Guildhall in truly golden array.This is termed the Liver, from which that flourishing town derived its name,and is now standing on the spot where the Foul was, on the verge of whichthe Liver was killed."— Montagu.Gen. LXVII. TOTANUS—Bill soft at the base, firm,with cutting edges towards the point. Upper mandible alittle inflected over the under. Legs long,slender. Thefirst quill longest.138. T.fuscus.— Base of the lowest mandible and feet red ;rump white ;tail-covers with cross black and white rays.Cambridge God wit, Penu. Brit. Zool. ii. 44G Spotted Snipe, Mont. Orn.Diet, and Suppl —Totanus fuscus, Temm. Orn. ii. 6'3'J.— On the coastduring winter.Length 12, breadth 22 inches; weight 5 ounces. Bill upwards of 2 inchesin length, black, the base of the lower mandible and the feet red. Face andplumage above, dusky back, ; wing-covers and scapulars with white spots ;beneath, dusky tinged with grey, the tips of the feathers white. In winter,the plumage, above, has a greyish tinge; below, white: dusky.— lores Youngbirds have the plumage with a tinge of olive-brown ; scapulars and wing coverswith triangular black spots:belly whitish, with zig-zag lines and spotsof brownish-ash.139. T. calidris. Redshank.— Base of both mandibles red;distal half of the secondaries white.Gallina erythropus, Will. Orn. 221. Sibb. Scot. 19— Scolopax calidris,Linn. Syst.i. 245. Perm. Brit. Zool. ii. 446".— Tot. cal. Temm. Orn. ii.643—Resident.Length 12, breadth 21 inches ;weight 5 ounces. Bill 2 inches long, blackat the point, the base, together with the feet, red. Irides chesnut. Loreswhite. Above, greyish olive-brown, with longitudinal black rays ; on the scapularsthere are a few transverse black rays. Rump white. Sides of the neckand beneath white, with a longitudinal black spot on the centre of each feather.