. A history of British birds . n the Common Sandpiper, but the feathers arelonger; in the tail five feathers on each side have white tips,and only one feather on each outside of the tail has theouter web white, barred with greenish-black; the chin white ;the throat, neck, breast, and all the under parts, even to theends of the under tail-coverts, white, but ornamented withnumerous well-defined round spots of dusky greenish-brown;the legs and toes flesh-colour ; the claws brown. The whole length is about six inches and the carpal joint to the end of the wing, four inches ;th
. A history of British birds . n the Common Sandpiper, but the feathers arelonger; in the tail five feathers on each side have white tips,and only one feather on each outside of the tail has theouter web white, barred with greenish-black; the chin white ;the throat, neck, breast, and all the under parts, even to theends of the under tail-coverts, white, but ornamented withnumerous well-defined round spots of dusky greenish-brown;the legs and toes flesh-colour ; the claws brown. The whole length is about six inches and the carpal joint to the end of the wing, four inches ;the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. The birds of the year are far less spotted on the underparts than the adults, which increases the resemblancebetween this species and the Common Sandpiper. The young chicks on leaving the shell are covered withdown of a dull drab-colour, marked with a single streak ofblack down the middle of the back, and with another behindthe ear. GREEN SANDPIPER. LIMICOLM. 457 SCOLOPACIDJ<:.. ToTANus ocHROPUs (Linnseus*). THE GKEEN SANDPIPER. Totanus ochropus. The erratic habits of the Green Sandpiper have givenrise to endless discussion and surmise. As a bird of doublepassage it is not unfrequent in many parts of the country,sometimes occurring even in winter, when deep snow is onthe ground, and as a rule it is absent from our streams foronly the brief interval between the beginning of June andthe end of July—barely a couple of months. Single birds,pairs, and small parties, have however been observed hereduring those summer months, and Mr. Stevenson has shownby a tabulated statement that Green Sandpipers have beenobtained in Norfolk in every month of the year. In a letter received on the 15th of September, 1840, thelate Rev. Richard Lubbock said :— This year I requestedmy nephew, who is often about the rivulet looking for fish,to let me know as soon as he perceived their return. On * Tringa Ocrophus (misprint), Linnseus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 1
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