GREEN SANDPIPER 335 
and under tail-coverts, white; axillaries, white, with small 
brown marks. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Somewhat resembles 
the nuptial plumage, but the feathers are much less spotted 
and streaked in winter. 
Immature, male and female.-—The spots on the back 
and wings are larger and more defined than in the adult, 
and the axillaries are almost pure white; the outer tail- 
feathers, which are white, are barred on both webs; other- 
wise the plumage resembles that of the adult. 
Beak. Dark brown. 
FEET. Bright olive colour. 
IrmDEs. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH 8°5 in 
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GREEN SANDPIPER.! Totanus ochropus (Linneus). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
56; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 564; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 46. 
Though nowhere numerous, yet the Green Sandpiper is 
more common than the preceding species as a migrant to the 
British Isles. It is most often seen in spring and autumn, 
but has been met with in midwinter and midsummer. 
It is likely that the birds which remain with us during June 
and July are immature, as there is no proof that the nest has 
ever been procured in our country. 
To the north and west of Scotland, this species is a rare 
visitor. Records from the Hebrides, the Orkneys, Shetlands, 
1 «The Green Sandpiper has only one large notch on each side of the 
posterior margin of the sternum, and was therefore placed in a separate 
genus, Helodromas, by Kaup, who further created Rhyacophilus for the 
Wood-Sandpiper ” (Saunders). 
