4 6S 



GREEN SANDPIPER. Class II. 



!0I. GlBBN. Cinclus. Bitot: av. 216. 



Gallirueaquaticac fccunda fpe- 



cies dc nov. adjcft. Gef- 



ner a-v. 511. 

 Giarolo, Gearoncello. Aldr. 



a-v. III. 185. 

 The Tringa of Aldr ov and. 



Wil. on. 300. 

 Rait fyn. a<v. 108. 

 Tringaochropus. Ltn.fyft. 251. 

 Wcifpunotirto Sandlreuffer . 



Frifch, II. 239. 



Faun. Succ. fp. 180. 



Lc Beccaflbau ou Cul-blanc, 

 Tringa. BriJJon aw. V. 

 177. tab. 16. fig. 1. 



Z)^;//j Horfe-Gioeg. IJlan- 

 dis Hroflagaukr. Norvegis 

 Skodde Foil , Skod-de- 

 Fugl. Jordgeed. Makkre- 

 Gouk, Roes Jouke. Bmn- 

 nich, 183. 



Br, Zool. 125. 



*T"*HIS beautiful fpecies is not very common in 

 Descrii\ A tne f e kingdoms. The head and hind part of 

 the neck are of a brownifh am color, flreaked with 

 white; the under part mottled with brown and 

 white : the back, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings 

 are of a dufky green, glofTy and refplendent as fiik, 

 and elegantly marked with fmall white fpots : the 

 leffer quil-feathers of the fame colors : the under 

 fides of the wings are black, marked with nume- 

 rous white lines, pointing obliquely from the edges 

 of the feather to the fhaft, reprefenting the letter 

 V: the rump is white-, the tail of the fame color: 

 the nrft feather plain, the fecond marked near the 

 end with one black fpot, the third and fourth with 

 two, the fifth with three, and the fixth with four. 



Except in pairing time, it is a folitary bird : it 

 is never found near the fea •, but frequents rivers, 

 lakes, and other frefh waters. In France it is 



highly 



