258 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



with black spots and bars ; under plumage spotted on the 

 lower part of the throat and crop ; beak black, inclining 

 to green at the base ; legs pale yellowisli green ; irides dark 

 brown. 



Entire length 9 inches; culmen 16 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 5-5 ; tarsus 2. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part i. 



a , Y 263. ToTANus ocHROPUS (Linn.). Green Satidpiper. 



This Sandpiper is abundant and very evenly distributed 

 throughout Egypt and Nubia, frequenting canals and pools 

 in preference to marshes, but generally to be observed where- 

 ever there is water. It rarely takes long flights, but if driven 

 from one pool will almost invariably fly to the nearest piece 

 of water, along the edge of which it runs, constantly stopping 

 to pick up some shell or worm, but always keeping a sharp 

 look out upon the sportsman. 



Upper plumage dusky green, finely spotted with dull white ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail white, the latter distinctly marked 

 with dusky black bars ; quills dusky ; uiiderparts white, 

 spotted on the lower part of the neck and crop with dusky ; 

 flanks dusky, narrowly barred with white ; beak and legs 

 deep greenish black ; irides bi'own. 



Entire length 9-5 inches; culmen 1*4; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 55 ; tarsus V3. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 315. 



