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appearing to be in the least alarmed; he had no doubt that these birds regularly 

 bred on Pocano Mountain, near Easton, although he could never find their nests. 

 He notes their resemblance, both in manners and markings, to i?. ochTO])us, or the 

 Green Sandpiper of Europe. 



Nuttall states that a i)air fretpiented, very familiarly, the small tish-pond in the 

 Botanic Garden in Cambridge, attracted by larvae that fed on the water-lily. They 

 would trip over the sinking leaves with all the lightness and agility of the Eail. 



Mr. Nelson, in his "Notes on the Birds of Northeastern Illinois," speaks of this 

 species as a common migrant, arriving the 1st of May, and remaining until about the 

 2oth, when the majority go farther north. He has several times taken young birds 

 near a prairie slough, which were just able to fly, and has noted the presence of adults 

 throughout the breeding-season, and does not think there can be the slightest doubt 

 that tliis species breeds in that vicinity, taking its departure southward in August 

 and September. The same writer noticed this Tattler as being common on the banks 

 of the Humboldt, near Elko, Nevada, the young being half-grown. It frequented the 

 sloughs in the meadows, but only a single pair was seen in each. 



Early in August, 1878, I noticed a pair of this species with a brood of four young 

 hardly able to fly, near an open reservoir of rain-water, on Appledore, Isles of Shoals. 

 These were too young to have come to that island over the water, the distance being 

 nine miles ; and that this brood could have been hatched on that rocky and treeless 

 island seemed very improbable. They were in company with, yet holding aloof from, 

 several pairs of Trlngoides macular'ms. My near presence at first appeared greatly 

 to alarm the parents ; but they were soon cpiieted, as I did nothing to disturb them, 

 and they then resumed their search for worms in the black mud on the edge of the 

 water. 



Eggs of T. macular'ms, as a general rule, are made to do duty for those of this 

 species. The only egg which I have seen, and have reason to accept as authentic, 

 was one taken in ^lay, 1878, by Mr. Jenness Eichardson, near Lake Bombazine, Ver- 

 mont. The nest was on the ground, and the female parent was shot as she left it. 

 The e^^^ measured 1..j7 by .9.") inches, the ground-color being a light drab, similar 

 to that of jEfjlalitis meloda ; over this were scattered small rounded markings of 

 brown, some of these (piite dark, nowhere confluent, and not large enough to be 

 called blotches. At the larger end there were a fcAV faint purplish or lilac discolor- 

 atious or shell-marks. The ^g% was elongated pyriform in shape. 



Rhyacophilus ochropiis. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa ochrophus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, 1766, 250. 



Totanus ochrojms, Tem.m. .Mmii. 1815, 420. — Naum. Yog. Deutselil. VIIl. 1836, 59, pi. 197. — Keys. 



& 15LAS. Wirb. Eur. 73. — Honap. Comp. List, 1838, 51. — IMacgill. Man. II. 94. — Gkay, Gen. 



B. III. 573 ; Cat. Biit. B. 1863, 158. 

 MyacophUus ochrojms, Ridgw. Proc'. V. S. Nat. Mils. Vol. 3, 1880, 200 ; Noiu. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 



551. — COUES, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 636. 

 Totanus rivnlis and T. feucourns, Bkehm, Vijg. DeutschL 

 Green Sandpiper, Yaiu;. Brit. B. ed. 2, II. 595, fig.; ed. 3, II. 642, fig.; et AucT. 



Hab. The Palsearctic Region, straying to Eastern North America (Nova Scotia, Harting). 



Sp. Char. Adult in summer : Similar to R. solitarins, but upper tail-coverts pure white, with- 

 out markings ; tail white, the middle feathers widely barred, clear across, with dusky, tlie lateral 

 feathers with uuly one Ijar, or immaculate, the others barred- only toward ends. Lining of wing 



