Species of sandpiper, perhaps the Green sandpiper, Tringa ochropus. De Gallin. aquat., De Octavo genere vulgo dicto Mattknillis, nobis Ochropus medius. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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