GREENSHANK (Tringa nebularia), one of the largest of the sandpipers. The long olive-coloured legs of this species dis tinguish it from two allied species (T. totanus and T. erythropus) having red legs and called redshanks. The greenshank is a native of the northern parts of the Old World, but in winter it wanders far to the south from South Africa to Australia. Almost as bulky as a woodcock, it is of a more slender build. The cock exhibits the gesticulations in which the males of so many Lirnicolae in dulge during the breeding-season—with variations of its own. It breeds in Scotland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and thence to Kamchatka.