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p. 462 ; Legge, B. Ceylon p. S62. Helodromas ochropus, List., Br. B. 

 Brit. Oru. U7iio7i. ; Oates, B. Br. Bunn. ii. p- 400.— The Green Sand-Piper. 

 In winter plumage the forehead, crown, nape and back of the neck arc 

 deep or dusky brown, the feathers streaked with white ; a dark streak from the 

 base of the bill to the eye and a white one above it ; chin and throat white ; 

 back and scapulars olive brown, or brown glossed with greenish, each feather 

 edged with small roundish spots, the spots on the scapulars distinctly margined 

 behind with deep brown ; primaries and their coverts and secondaries deep 

 brown, none of them white-shafted ; wing coverts dusky brown ; axillarks 

 dusky or darh broivn, ivith iiarroiv oblique tvhite bars; abdomen, vent and 

 upper and under tail coverts white ; tail white, broadly barred with deep 

 brown, the middle feathers having four bars, and those next to them decreas- 

 ing in number, the outer feathers on each side being pure white with some- 

 times a dusky subterminal spot on the outer web ; legs and feet greenish grey ; 

 bill black ; irides brown. 



Length.— (^-^ to 10 inches; wing 5-5 to 6 ; tail 3 ; bill r37 ; tarsus nearly v$. 



Hah. — Throughout India, Ceylon, Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan, 

 frequenting the banks of rivers, edges of lakes and large sheets of water; a 

 winter visitant, seldom seen along the sea coast. Occurs throughout Europe, 

 Asia and Africa, extending to Burmah and the jNIalay Peninsula, 



Gen, TotaniTS.— ^^'c-^. 



Bill slightly curved at tip, groove half the length of the bill ; tarsi with 

 n-arrow scales in front, otherwise as in Ac tit is. 



171. TotailUS glareola {Gm.), Sahad., Ucc. Bom. p. 327 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. iii. p, 183 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 143, pi. ; Legge, B. Ce}'lon p. 857 ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. hid. ii. p, 620, No. 1302, Tringa glareola, Gm., Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 677. Actitis glareola, jferd., B. Lid. iii, p. 697 ; Blyth, B. 

 Burm. p. 155. Rhyacophila glareola, Eume and Dav., Str. F. \\. ■^. /\.62 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. vii. p, 488; viii. p. 113; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 240. — The 

 Wood Sand-Piper. 



Winter F/twiage.— Crown of the head, forehead, nape and back of the neck 

 dusky brown, the feathers with narrow white or greyish edgings; a dark streak 

 from the base of the bill to the eye, and a white one above it; chin and throat 

 rather sullied; foreneck and breast the same, but suffused with ashy brown, 

 darker on the sides, where the feathers are indistinctly dark shafted ; back, 

 scapulars and tertials dusky, the feathers edged wiih white or greyish white 

 spots ; axillaries white, with transverse oblique dusky brown spots ; primaries, 

 secondaries and their coverts dusky brown, the shaft of the first quill and the 

 tips of the later inner ones white ; the greater wing coverts margined and 

 tipped with white ; rump, upper and lower tail coverts and abdomen white ; tail 

 with the central feathers longest and barred with black and white alternately, 



