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TOTANUS OCIIROPUS. THE GREEN TATLER. 



GIIEEN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa ochropus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 250. 



Tringa ochropus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 729. 



Green Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Chevalier cul-blanc. Totanus ochropus. Tenim. Man. d'Orn. II. 651. 



Totanus ochropus. Green Sandpiper. Flem. Brit. Anim. 103. 



Green Sandpiper. Totanus ochropus. Selh. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 75. 



Totanus ochropus. Green Sandpiper. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 197. 



Totanus ochropus. Bonap. Comp. List, 51. 



Tail nearly even, white, the four middle feathers with 

 three blackish-brown bars toward the end, the outermost 

 feather plain; upper part of head and hind-neck brownish- 

 grey; back, scapulars, and inner secondaries greenish-brown, 

 with marginal ivhitish and dusky spots; neck greyish-white, 

 with longitudinal dusky lines; the breast and abdomen white; 

 lower wing-coverts, axillars, and some of the hypochondrial 

 feathers angularly barred, ivith brown,- bill dusky above, 

 reddish beneath; feet greyish-blue, tinged with green. 



Male. — This very elegant species is much larger than 

 the Common or White-breasted Weet-weet, which it however 

 closely resembles in form and proportions, the body being 

 ovate and rather elongated ; the neck slender and rather 

 long ; the head small, oblong, and compressed. The bill is 

 straight, very slender, with the nasal groove extending 

 beyond the middle, the upper mandible a little declinate at 

 the tip, the lower straight. The legs are rather long and 

 very slender ; the tibia bare for eight-twelfths of an inch ; 

 the tarsus compressed and slender, with thirty-four anterior 

 and thirty-six posterior scutella. The anterior toes are long, 

 very slender, and marginate ; the outer longer than the 



