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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



(Brcen Sanbpiper* 



The Green Sandpiper (To/amis ochropus^ Linnaeus) is a 

 spring and autumn migrant to the British Islands, and is 

 occasionally found in winter. It inhabits the Northern 

 Palearctic Region. The adult in summer has the general 

 colour of the upper plumage dusky olive-brown, with streaks 

 of white on head and neck ; mantle, scapulars, and inner- 

 most secondaries, spotted with white ; primaries, brownish ; 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and outer tail-feathers, white ; 

 remainder of rectrices, barred with blackish-brown ; under 

 parts, white, with streaks of brown on neck and chest ; 

 axillaries, brownish-black, with narrow bars of white ; irides, 

 dark hazel; bill, blackish; legs and feet, dark greyish, 

 tinged at the points with green. Length, about eight 

 inches. The female is like the male. 



