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GREEN SANDPIPER. 



WHISTLING SANDPIPER. WOOD SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXVI. FIG. I. 



Tringa ochropus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Tringa Aldrovandi, RAY. 



Totanus ochropus, FLEMING. SELBT. 



THE nest of this species is either in sand on a bank, or among 

 grass by the side of a stream. 



The eggs, four in number, are of a greenish white ground colour, 

 with dusky or dark brown and light reddish brown and grey spots, 

 more or less deep. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen forwarded by J. R. De 

 Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford. 



