268 A HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN BIRDS. 
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GREEN SANDPIPER. 
Totanus ochropus (Zzzz.). 
Adult (Summer): Above dusky-green ; sides of head and 
neck streaked, and mantle, scapulars and innermost secondaries 
spotted with white ; wpper tazl-coverts and tail w/e, the latter 
broadly barred with brown ; wing-quills dusky brown ; beneath 
white, streaked on neck and chest with brown; axz//aries brown, 
narrowly barred with white; bill (from gape) above an inch 
and a half long, blackish ; legs and feet slaty-grey, greenish at 
the points; irides hazel-brown. Length about 8°5 inches ; 
culmen I°3; wing 5°5; tail 2'2; tarsus 1°3. 
Adult (Winter): The head and neck lack the white 
streaks and the back spots are smaller than in summer. 
Young in first plumage: Resemble adults in winter, but 
are darker ; the spots on upper parts chestnut-buff, not white. 
Young of the year: Resemble adults in winter, but are 
much less spotted above. 
Distribution: Generally distributed over Europe and Asia, 
breeding in the more northerly parts and migrating in autumn 
to Africa and India. 
Habitat: Marshes, margins of lakes and rivers, rarely the 
sea-coast. 
WOOD SANDPIPER. 
Totanus glareola (Lzmz.). 
Adult: Differs from Z: ochropus in being smaller, having a 
shorter bill and wings and longer legs ; upper parts darker, more 
olive and more mixed with white about the back than in 
T. ochropus ; outermost tail-feathers white, barred or spotted 
with brown on outer webs; axzllaries white, obscurely barred 
with brown ; bill olive; legs and feet yellowish-green ; irides 
dark brown. Length 7°5 inches ; cu/men r-15; wing 4°8 ; tail 
2; bare portion of tibia o'8 ; tarsus 1°45. 
Young in first plumage: Are very like adults, but the 
feathers of the fore parts above have marginal spots of buff and 
white ; fore parts beneath very obscurely streaked. 
