GREEN SANDPIPER. 



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illary plume greyish black, witli narrow angular wliite bars ; 

 under wing-coverts greyish black, with narrow transverse bars 

 of white ; legs, toes, and claws, greenish black. 



The whole length nine inches and a half. From the carpal 

 joint to the end of the wing, five inches and five eighths; the 

 first quill-feather the longest in the wing. 



The young have rather more of the ash colour in their 

 plumage, and less of the dark green. 



Of the two representations of feathers given below, the 

 upper one is from the axillary plume, the lower one from the 

 middle tail-feather of the Green Sandpiper, to show the dis- 

 tinction between these feathers and two others from the same 

 parts in the Wood Sandpiper, as inserted at page 538. 



