WHITE-TAILED TATLER. 157 



Summer plumage of the adults. — A white line from the upper 

 mandible to the eye. Head, nape, top of the back, scapulars and 

 coverts cinereous olive-brown, each feather nearly black towards its 

 centre. On the scapulars and larger wing coverts, some small black- 

 ish transversal bands. Rump white. Sides of the head, throat, and 

 all the lower parts white, but upon the centre of each feather there 

 is a large longitudinal spot of blackish-brown. Tail feathers banded 

 with black and white ; the white soiled and grey on the 4 middle 

 feathers. Legs, feet, and the lower half of the bill of a bright ver- 

 milion. — In the young of the year, the upper feathers about the head 

 are dusky-brown, with fine yellowish margins. Back and scapulars 

 the same brown, the feathers bordered laterally by a yellowish band, 

 which forms angular spots upon the edges of the feathers. The re- 

 gion about the breast spotted narrowly with dusky-brown. Flanks 

 and belly wliite, with some brown spots. Extremity of the tail ru- 

 fous. Bill livid at the base, brown towards the point. Feet and 

 legs orange. 



Note. The Totanus candidus of Brisson, figured by Edwards, pi. 

 139. is considered by him to be an albino variety of T. calidris. Its 

 semipalmated feet would, however, rather rank it with T. semi- 

 palmatus ; but it is smaller. The plumage was all white, except a 

 little transverse mixture of pale brown on the back, wings, and tail. 

 The legs and feet bright reddish-orange. 



WHITE-TAILED TATLER. 



(Totanus ochropu^, Temm. ii. p. 651. Richard, and Swai.vs. North. 

 Zool. ii. p. 392. Tringa ochropus, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 676. sp. 1;^. 

 Lath. Ind. ii. p. 729. Le Bicasseau ou Cul-Blanc, Buff. Ois. vii. 

 p. 534. PL Enlum. 843. [young of the year.] Green Sandpiper. 

 Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 475. No. 389 .=") 



Sp. Charact. — Dark Olivaceous-brown, with green reflections, and 

 spotted with white ; three or four outer tail feathers white, or witli 

 a spot only towards their extremities ; quills blackish-brown. 



The Green Sandpiper, as this species has been called, is 

 principally an inhabitant of the northern parts of Europe, 

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