. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 619. THE GREENSHANK. ToTANUs CANESCENS (J. F. Gmelin). The Greenshank occurs annually, though in small numbers, on the shores and many of the inland waters of Great Britain during the spring and autumn migrations, but it is not very often met with in December or January. In Ireland, however, it remains through the winter (especially in cos. Mayo and Cork), until the spring, after which its absence is very brief, inasmuch as some birds appear again early in July, while the majority have arrived by the end of that month (R. Warren). I
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 619. THE GREENSHANK. ToTANUs CANESCENS (J. F. Gmelin). The Greenshank occurs annually, though in small numbers, on the shores and many of the inland waters of Great Britain during the spring and autumn migrations, but it is not very often met with in December or January. In Ireland, however, it remains through the winter (especially in cos. Mayo and Cork), until the spring, after which its absence is very brief, inasmuch as some birds appear again early in July, while the majority have arrived by the end of that month (R. Warren). In Scotland it was dis- covered nesting by Macgillivray in the Outer Hebrides, where a few pairs are still to be found, as they are in Skye and some of the Inner islands ; but on the mainland its breeding-range is increasing, especially in the Moray area, and extends over portions of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, Argyll, and the north of Perthshire, while Mr. Service thinks that a few pairs inhabit the Galloway hills. The Greenshank has never been known to breed in the Orkneys, and Saxby's statements respecting the finding of its eggs in Shetland remain uncorroborated. This species is a regular summer-visitor to the fells and morasses of Scandinavia, Northern Russia, and Siberia up to about lat. 60° Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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