GREEN SANDPIPER. 



LIMICOLM. 



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SCOLOPACIDJ<:. 



ToTANus ocHROPUs (Linnseus*). 



THE GKEEN SANDPIPER. 



Totanus ochropus. 



The erratic habits of the Green Sandpiper have given 

 rise to endless discussion and surmise. As a bird of double 

 passage it is not unfrequent in many parts of the country, 

 sometimes occurring even in winter, when deep snow is on 

 the ground, and as a rule it is absent from our streams for 

 only the brief interval between the beginning of June and 

 the end of July — barely a couple of months. Single birds, 

 pairs, and small parties, have however been observed here 

 during those summer months, and Mr. Stevenson has shown 

 by a tabulated statement that Green Sandpipers have been 

 obtained in Norfolk in every month of the year. 



In a letter received on the 15th of September, 1840, the 

 late Rev. Richard Lubbock said : — " This year I requested 

 my nephew, who is often about the rivulet looking for fish, 

 to let me know as soon as he perceived their return. On 



* Tringa Ocrophus (misprint), Linnseus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 250 (1766). 

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