. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 246 AVES. stouter and proportionally less flexible than in the preceding, is used by them to turn over stones to search for the worms that lie beneath them. [Its form is not unlike that of a Nuthatch's bill.] The two species doubtfully indicated by the author are merely the same in diiTerent states of plumage : it is a bird of remarkably wide geographic range, and tolerably plentiful on the British coasts : its affinitv is rather with the Oyster-catchers and Plovers]. The Gambets {Totanus, Cuv.)— Have a slender, round
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 246 AVES. stouter and proportionally less flexible than in the preceding, is used by them to turn over stones to search for the worms that lie beneath them. [Its form is not unlike that of a Nuthatch's bill.] The two species doubtfully indicated by the author are merely the same in diiTerent states of plumage : it is a bird of remarkably wide geographic range, and tolerably plentiful on the British coasts : its affinitv is rather with the Oyster-catchers and Plovers]. The Gambets {Totanus, Cuv.)— Have a slender, round, pointed, and solid beak, the nasal groove of which only extends half its length, and the upper mandible is slightly arcuated towards the tip. Their form is slight, and legs elevated : the thumb hardly touches the ground, and the palmation of their outer toe is well-marked. The species are each found nearly all over the world, [or rather, there are many difficult of determination apart, which has induced the latter opinion.] The Greenshank Gambet {Scot, glottis, Lin.).—As large as a [rather small] Godwit, with the beak comparatively stout, [and a httle recurved] ; ashy-brown above and on the sides, with the margins of the feathers punctated with brown, the croup and belly white, and tail rayed with narrow irregular bars grey and white ; the feet green : in summer the throat and breast are spotted with dusky tears, which disappear after the breeding season. This is the largest species of Gambet in Europe. [It breeds on the margins of lakes, including those of Britain, and during the season of propagation is very clamorous, rising on the wing and spreading an alarm at the approach of danger to all other birds within hearing : in winter it resorts to the sea-shore in small flocks, apparently the amount of broods. The Greenshank is a characteristic example of a particular group, the members of which are comparatively large, acquire more or less of a dusky colour on the under-p
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