24 GREEN SANDPIPER. 



GREEN SANDPIPER. 



WHISTLING SANDPIPER. WOOD SANDPIPER. 

 PLATE CLXVI. FIGURE 1. 



Tringa ochropus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Tringa Aldrovandi, RAY. 



Tetanus ochropus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



HE 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 dark. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen for- 

 warded by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln 

 College, Oxford. 



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