174 



SHORE BIRDS. 



119. GREEN SANDPIPER. 



Diilers from the last in being a little 

 longer, 10, and in having the middle tail 



Fiii-. 144 



(flossy Ibis. 1-1(3. 



feathers broadly banded with white and the 

 upper tail coverts pure white. Places its 

 eggs in the abandoned nest of some tree- 

 building bird, and our closely allied Solitary 

 probably has the same habit. Northern 

 parts of Old World; accidental in eastern 

 N. A. 



