. British birds with their nests and eggs . rkestan. It has beenrecorded as breeding in England, the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, and Caucasus,but, though not unlikely, definite proof seems still wanting. The same may besaid of Japan, whence I have a skin in summer dress, and China;* with us, inCentral and Southern Europe, the whole of Africa, India, Ceylon, Burmah, andthe Malay Archipelago, it is an autumn and spring migrant, remaining in thesouthernmost of these through the winter. W^ith us, too, like the W^ood Sandpiper,it is more abundant on the east side than the west, but, unlike it, som
. British birds with their nests and eggs . rkestan. It has beenrecorded as breeding in England, the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, and Caucasus,but, though not unlikely, definite proof seems still wanting. The same may besaid of Japan, whence I have a skin in summer dress, and China;* with us, inCentral and Southern Europe, the whole of Africa, India, Ceylon, Burmah, andthe Malay Archipelago, it is an autumn and spring migrant, remaining in thesouthernmost of these through the winter. W^ith us, too, like the W^ood Sandpiper,it is more abundant on the east side than the west, but, unlike it, sometimesstays through the winter. In America it has not been known to occur, but isreplaced by the next species, which wants the conspicuous white rump of our of adult in summer: bill dusky, with a light brown base; irisnmber; upper parts hair-brown, with an olive sheen on the back and -nings; • In the latter country Styan describes it as common all the winter, the last species being only a springand autumn migrant. ***^ 4. DHD< *oCC Eu QZ <in UJUJ O The Green Sandpiper, ss wing-coverts with a few small whitish spots; tertiaries and scapulars with pairsof marginal white spots, giving the back a speckled appearance; primaries andsecondaries black-brown, with no white shafts; rump and upper tail-coverts white;tail white, with four bold dark brown bars (one forming a tip) to the centralfeathers, decreasing to one spot on the outer pair; a white eye-brow reachingfrom the bill, with a dusky eye-stripe below it, passing through the eye to theear-coverts; sides of face and neck white, spotted with dusky brown; chin andupper throat white; rest of throat and upper breast dusky, with dark shaft-stripeswidening at the tips into spots; breast and belly white; axillaries sooty-black,narrowly and regularly barred with white; legs and feet greenish-grey. Lengthnearly lo inches; closed wing 5J to 5f. Adults in winter have almost or entirely lost the light spots on the ba
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