B58 TOTANIN #&. 
THE SPOTTED SAND-PIPER. 
Length, 85 to 90; wing, 5; expanse, 16°5; tail, 2; tarsus, 
15; bill at front, 1:2: 
Bill greenish, dusky-black at tip; irides deep brown ; legs 
pale-greenish, 
In winter, the plumage is deep brown on the forehead, crown, 
back, and wings, with white and greyish spots on the back, 
a dusky streak between the gape and the eye, and a white super- 
cilium ; cheeks and nape dirty-white with ashy-brown spots ; 
upper tail-coverts pure white, tail narrowly barred black and 
white, the two outer feathers on each side entirely white ; throat 
white ; foreneck and breast dirty white, with spots and streaks 
of ashy-brown ; flanks barred with the same; abdomen and 
under tail-coverts pure white. 
In summer the feathers of the crown and nape are distinctly 
streaked brown and white ; the feathers of the back have a large 
black spot as well as the white spots, and the white of the lower 
parts is purer. 
The Spotted Sand-piper is a common cold weather visitant 
to all parts of the region; it is perhaps less common in Sind 
than elsewhere. 
Genus, Totanus, Bech. 
Bill slightly curved at tip, groove half the length of the bill; 
tarsi with narrow scales in front ; otherwise as in Actitis. 
Totanus ochropus, Zin. 
892.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 698; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 430; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 254; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
THE GREEN SAND-PIPER. 
Length, 9°75 to 10°5; expanse, 18 to 19; wing, 5°5 to 6; tail, 
3; tarsus, 15; bill at front, 14. 
Bill dusky green, blackish at tip; irides brown; legs dingy- 
reen. 
; Crown, nape, and upper parts ashy-brown, tinged with olive- 
green; all the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing-coverts 
with an edging of small white spots; quills deep brown ; upper 
tail-coverts pure white; tail with the basal third white; the 
rest white with brown bars, the two outermost feathers entirely 
white ; a brown streak from the gape to the eye, and a white 
supercilium ; all beneath pure white, a few of the feathers on 
the neck and breast with dusky streaks. 
In summer, the upper parts are darker, greener, and more 
spotted, and the streaks on the neck more distinct. 
The Green Sand-piper is a very common cold weather visitant 
to all parts of the Presidency. 
