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Identifier: indiansportingbi00finn (find matches)
Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nipe (Blacrorhamphus griseus)of America, is well known to shore-gunners there, and has evenstrayed to the British Islands. Among other birds of this grouponly greenshanks and golden plover can be noted. Greenshank. Totanns glottis. Tlmtimma, Hindustani. The greenshank is not only the biggest, but much the best forthe table, of the various sandpipers or snippets, most of which arecontemptuously passed over by sportsmen as birds of no account;but as it is really good, and easily recognizable, it is worth men-tioning here, especially as the front figure in Humes plate ofArmstrongs yellowshanks might easily be taken for it. It) is a most graceful, elegant bird, with a straight, slender,pointed bill, and greyish plumage with conspicuous white under-parts and rump, which last, together with the nearly white tail,is noticeable as it gets up with its characteristic shrill cry,imitated by its native name in Hindustani ; the Bengali nameis Gotra. The legs are green and the bill black at the tip
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EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER 101 and clear blue-grey at the root ; the whole length about afoot and a quarter, while the bod) is as big as a small partridges.The greenshank is a winter visitor, staying from Septemberto April; it is distributed all across the northern parts of theOld World in summer, and visits Australia as well as India andChina in winter. In summer plumage the fore and upper partsare much streaked with black. The marsh sandpiper (Totanusstagnatilis) is like this bird on a small scale. Armstrongs Yellowshanks; Totanus guttifer* Distinguished from the greenshank by its darker tail, rathersmaller size, and proportionately shorter legs, which are yellower,this rare bird is probably often passed over; it is an East Asiaticbird, breeding in the north. In winter it has been got inHainan, and Hume got it in the Calcutta Bazaar, whileArmstrong also obtained it at the mouth of the RangoonRiver; but hardly anything is known about it. In summerplumage, the back is nearly black. To dist

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