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reddisli brown and ash grey : in other examples the spots are 

 less numerous and their colour more uniform. The flesh of 

 the Green Sandpiper is said to be excellent. 



This bird visits Scandinavia in spring, and remains till 

 August. It is not included among the Birds of the Faroe 

 Islands or Iceland, but one or two examples are said to have 

 been obtained as far to the North West as Hudson's Bay. 

 In spring and autumn it is found over Europe generally ; in 

 France it is esteemed for its delicate taste, and it is caught 

 with limed twigs placed near its haunts. The bird is seen 

 in Switzerland, Provence, and Italy. Mr. Strickland ob- 

 served it at Smyrna ; M, Vieillot says it is found in Egypt. 

 The Zoological Society has received specimens from Trebi- 

 zond; and M. Menetries has included it in his catalogue of 

 birds found south of the Caucasus. Colonel Sykes and Major 

 Franklin brought specimens from different parts of India ; 

 and M. Temminck says it inhabits Japan. 



The beak is greenish black ; the irides hazel ; from the 

 beak to the eye a dusky brown streak ; over that and over 

 the eye a Avhite one ; top of the head, back of the neck, back 

 and wing-coverts, dusky green, slightly undulated with darker 

 shades ; primary quill-feathers uniform dusky black ; scapu- 

 lars and tertials greenish brown, with numerous small light- 

 coloured spots along both edges of the scapulary feathers and 

 on the outside margin only of the tertials ; upper tail-coverts 

 white ; tail-feathers for the greater part white ; the outside 

 feather on each side, with one small dark spot on the outer 

 web near the end ; the next feather with two dark spots ; the 

 third and fourth with two rather broad dark bands ; the fifth 

 and sixth with three or four dark bands, but all the marks 

 are on the distal half of the tail-feathers, leaving the basal 

 half pure white ; chin white; throat, front and sides of the 

 neck white, streaked downwards with dusky lines ; breast, 

 and all the under surface of the body white ; sides and ax- 



