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aries like the back and barred on exposed portions with dark brown; 
remainder of secondaries white, but pale brown on concealed bases ; greater 
coverts white or grayish distally, brownish gray basally, and barred with 
sepia; median coverts brownish gray, barred with sepia; lesser coverts 
almost plain ; lower surface white, more or less heavily marked throughout 
with sepia, these markings taking on throat and breast the form of broad 
streaks, on flanks, sides, and crissum of bars, and elsewhere of more or 
less irregular spots; lining of wing white, varied with brownish, except 
on axillars. ‘Length of male, 292; of female 298; bill black, orange- 
brown at base beneath; iris dark brown; feet orange-red ; claws. black.’ 
(Abboti.) » 
“The form of Totanus totanus inhabiting Central and Eastern Asia, 
although seemingly identical with the European bird in color and mark- 
ings, is yet so much larger, particularly in length of wing, tail, and 
culmen, that its separation as a subspecies appears to be warranted.” 
(Oberholser. ) 
Taking the measurements of three males and two females from Central 
Asia as recorded by Oberholser gives the following average measurements : 
Wing, 163; tail, 66.8; exposed culmen, 46.6 ; tarsus, 47.2 ; middle toe, 30.2. 
A male from Cuyo measures: Wing, 159; tail, 61; exposed culmen, 46 ; 
tarsus, 49; middle toe with claw, 34. A female from Cuyo, wing, 151; 
tail, 59; exposed culmen, 43; tarsus, 47; middle toe with claw, 35. 
I refer Philippine specimens of the redshank to the Asiatic sub- 
species as being the one more likely to occur here if two races of Totanus 
totanus be recognized. 
Genus HELODROMAS Kaup, 1829. 
Bill straight, equal to tarsus, greater than middle toe with claw; rump 
and tail-coverts white. 
106. HELODROMAS OCHROPUS (Linneus). 
GREEN SANDPIPER. 
Tringa ocrophus* LiInNzUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 
Helodromas ochropus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 487; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 160; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 44; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 25. 
Bohol (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere, Whitehead) ; Negros (Whitehead) ; 
Samar (Steere). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; in winter to Indian Penin- 
sula and Malay Archipelago. 
“Adult male in winter plumage.—Above uniform olive-brown with a 
slight gloss of bronzy olive; scapulars and wing-coverts like back, but 
having a few tiny white spots on the margins; lower back and rump 
* “Qcrophus”’ is said to be a misprint. 
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