"Adult in winter plumage.--General color above light ashy gray, with obsolete whitish edges to scapulars and wing-coverts, especially the greater series; lesser coverts distinctly black in the center; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, outer primaries with white shafts, inner primaries ashy toward the ends, with a white fringe; secondaries broadly tipped with white, and white along the inner web; inner secondaries ashy gray like the back, with blackish shaft-lines; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like the back, the latter freckled and edged with ashy white; tail-feathers ashy gray, whitish at base, mottled with ashy; head and neck ashy gray; forehead and eyebrow white, becoming fulvescent above ear-coverts; lores dusky ashy; sides of face whitish, streaked with ashy gray, the upper edge of ear-coverts uniform ashy; cheeks, throat, and under surface pure white; sides of neck and sides of upper breast ashy gray, the latter with a distinct dusky patch; axillars and under wing-coverts white; feathers along edge of wing ashy gray; quills grayish below. 'Bill dark brown, yellowish at base of lower mandible; feet and toes yellow; iris brown.' (Oates.)" (Sharpe.) This curious sandpiper was met with in considerable numbers on the tide-flats near Minglanilla, Cebu, in November, 1906. At or near high water the species was found, in company with Heteractitis, resting among the roots of mangrove trees and at such times it was no uncommon occurrence to kill several specimens of each species at one shot. As the rocky flats became exposed these birds scattered to feed and became more difficult to approach. The bill of the female is much longer than that of the male, but the plumage is similar in the two sexes. In a male taken November 20, the bill was black, except the yellow base, legs bright orange-chrome, and nails black. Genus GLOTTIS Koch, 1816. Bill slightly curved upward; culmen decidedly shorter than tarsus; the latter about twice the middle toe without claw; rump white. 110. GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS (Gunnerus). GREENSHANK. Scolopax nebularius Gunnerus, Leem. Lapp. Beschr. (1767), 251. Glottis nebularius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 481; Hand-List (1899), 1, 161; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 47; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 26. Bohol (McGregor); Cebu (McGregor); Luzon (McGregor); Mindanao (Platen); Mindoro (McGregor); Negros (Steere Exp.). Africa, northern Europe and northern Asia; in winter Indian Peninsula to Australia.