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yellowish brown, the margins barred with dusky ; 
the chin is white, streaked towards the cheeks and 
and throat with ash; the sides of the neck and breast 
are dull greyish ash, streaked in the centre of each 
feather with dusky; the middle of the throat and 
breast rather lighter than the sides; the belly is 
white: flanks and thighs white, streaked and 
spotted with dusky; under tail-coverts the same. 
The egg is pear-shaped, like that of the Golden 
Plover, which it somewhat resembles, but it is rather 
smaller, a pale whitish brown ground, tinged with 
greenish and much spotted, particularly at the longer 
end, with dark umber-brown; there are also a few 
spots of a pale purplish brown. 
GREEN SanppiPerR, Totanus ochropus. The 
Green Sandpiper is by no means a rare summer 
visitor, but is to be found by most of our streams 
and pools at that time of the year; it probably 
breeds in the neighbourhood, as I have often seen it 
and received specimens as early as the 8th of August, 
which would not have given it a very long time to 
have gone northward to breed and return again. I 
do not, however, know of any instance in which the 
eggs of this bird have been taken in the neighbour- 
hood, but this may be because the egg-hunters did 
not know where to look for the nest, being ignorant 
of the habit this bird has of nesting in trees or in 
the deserted nest of some other bird: this does not 
appear, however, to be quite a universal habit, as 
