SCOLOPACIDE. 3838 
rump, wing-coverts and tertials are dark dull green, 
on the margins and tips of the feathers are small 
spots of dirty white; the primary and secondary 
quills are black; the upper tail-coverts are pure 
white; the tail-feathers are very distinctly barred 
with black and white, the outside feathers on each 
side having the most white; the chin is white; the 
throat white, streaked with dusky; the sides of the 
neck and breast dusky; the belly and under tail- 
coverts pure white; the axillary plume black, regu- 
larly barred with narrow streaks of white rather in 
the shape of a V with the point towards the base of 
the feather; the lesser under wing-coverts slightly 
spotted on the margins with white; the greater are 
black: The axillary plume will at once distinguish 
this bird from the Wood Sandpiper, a bird which it 
much resembles and which has often been mistaken 
for it, which perhaps is the reason I have not been 
able to include it in this list, as it may very probably 
have occurred and been overlooked; the axillary 
plume and under wing-coverts, in the Wood Sand- 
piper, are white, with a few transverse dusky bars; 
the tail-feathers also differ, as in the Green Sand- 
piper the black bars do not extend to the base 
of the feather, which is white, and in the Wood 
Sandpiper these feathers are barred all the way 
down. The legs, toes and claws of the present 
species are greenish black. The young birds of the 
year do not differ much, except that the whitish spots 
