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markings below, the legs being bright yellow. 7. melanoleucus, 
of the same districts, is similar, but larger. 7. guttifer is a rare 
North Pacific species, recorded in winter from Calcutta and 
Burma. It is not unlike 7” glottis, the Greenshank, which ranges 
over Northern Europe and Asia, and extends in winter to 
Cape Colony, the Indian Region, and Australia. This bird has 
wandered to America, and breeds in the hill-districts of Scotland, 
resembling the Dusky Redshank in its selection of dry nesting 
sites, habit of perching, and so forth. It is, however, much more 
noisy, uttering a strident note, or one dimly recalling a Woodpecker, 
while it lays large, buffish-white eggs with rich brown blotches. 
It sometimes eats small fish, as does its congener 7. incanus. The 
plumage is grey and black above in summer and grey in winter, 
with white rump and tail, the latter being barred with dusky ; the 
white breast is spotted with brown in the breeding season; the 
shghtly wp-turned beak is blackish; the legs are olive. 7. stagnatilis, 
the Marsh Sandpiper, a miniature Greenshank of somewhat similar 
winter range, occupies South Europe and Central Asia. 7’. glareola, 
the Wood Sandpiper, is olive-brown above, with small whitish 
spots and white rump ; the white cheeks, fore-neck, and breast are 
heavily streaked with brown; the tail-feathers and axillaries are also 
white with black bars and brown flecks respectively, the feet are 
olive. The nest has once at least been found in Britain, whence 
the bird ranges over North Europe and Asia; it has apparently 
bred in Spain and Italy, and migrates to Cape Colony, the 
Indian Region, and Australia. In this species and the following 
the note is shrill and often tremulous, while the former occasion- 
ally, and the latter habitually, lays its greenish eggs with reddish- 
brown spots in deserted nests of other birds near inland waters, 
instead of on the ground. 7”. ochropus, the Green Sandpiper, which 
is less spotted above, has much wider black tail-bars, and blackish 
axillaries with white chevrons. It has been suspected of breeding 
in Britain, and occupies a similar though somewhat more northern 
range than the last-named, but does not reach Australia. 7. 
solitarius, with almost uniform brown median rectrices, inhabits 
temperate, and migrates to tropical, South America; it has been 
shot in the littoral marshes of western England. 7. (Symphemia) 
semipalmatus, largest of the genus, the Willet of temperate North 
America, which extends to Brazil in winter and wanders to 
Europe, is brownish-grey with black mottlings, the outspread 
