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CHAPTEE XX. 



The Sandpiper. The Stint. The Avocet. The Buff. The Rail. 

 The Moor Hen. The Coot. The Phalaropes. The Woodcock. 

 The Snipe. 



THE green sandpiper (Totanus ochropus) is found all 

 over this country. It has been seen in great numbers 

 at the mouth of the river Passwig, which flows into the 

 Icy Sea. 



The wood-sandpiper (T. glareola) is called here the 

 gronbenet sneppe, or green-legged snipe. It is nearly 

 as common as the preceding. It breeds in Fin- 

 mark; the nest is made on marshy ground, but it 

 has even been found on a tree, at a height of twelve 

 yards from the ground. The eggs are four in number, 

 and very pale green in colour, marked with dark red- 

 brown spots. 



The common sandpiper (T. hypoleuca) is found ge- 

 nerally throughout Norway. It frequents the sides 

 of small lakes, as well as the banks of rivers. It is 

 called in Lapland skillili. It lays a large egg for its 

 size, on which account, as Mr. Lloyd informs us, the 

 Lapps have made this couplet on it : 



