620 SCOLOPACID^:. 



ochropus, List., Br. B. Brit. Orn. Union. ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 400. The GREEN SAND-PIPER. 



In winter plumage the forehead, crown, nape and back of the neck are 

 deep or dusky brown, the feathers streaked with white ; a dark streak from the 

 base of the bill to the eye and a white one above it ; chin and throat white ; 

 back and scapulars olive brown, or brown glossed with greenish, each feather 

 edged with small roundish spots, the spots on the scapulars distinctly margined 

 behind with deep brown ; primaries and their coverts and secondaries deep 

 brown, none of them white-shafted ; wing coverts dusky brown ; axillaries 

 dusky or dark brown, with narrow oblique white bars ; abdomen, vent and 

 upper and under tail coverts white ; tail white, broadly barred with deep 

 brown, the middle feathers having four bars, and those next to them decreas- 

 ing in number, the outer feathers on each side being pure white with some- 

 times a dusky subterminal spot on the outer web ; legs and feet greenish grey ; 

 bill black ; irides brown. 



Length. 9*5 to 10 inches; wing 5-5 to 6; tail 3; bill 1*37; tarsus nearly 



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Hal. Throughout India, Ceylon, Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan, 

 frequenting the banks of rivers, edges of lakes and large sheets of water ; a 

 winter visitant, seldom seen along the sea coast. Occurs throughout Europe, 

 Asia and Africa, extending to Burmah and the Malay Peninsula. 



Gen. Totanus. Bech. 



Bill slightly curved at tip, groove half the length of the bill ; tarsi with 

 narrow scales in front, otherwise as in Ac tit is. 



1303. Totanus glareola (Gm.\ Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 327 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. iii. p. 183 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 143, pi.; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 857. 

 Tringa glareola, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 677. Actitis glareola, Jerd., B. Ind. 

 iii. p. 697; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 155. Rhyacophila glareola, Hume and 

 Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 462 ; Hu?ne, Str. F. vii. p. 488 ; viii. p. 113; Oates, Sir. 

 F. x. p. 240. The WOOD SAND-PIPER. 



Winter Plumage. Crown of the head, forehead, nape and back of the neck 

 dusky brown, the feathers with narrow white or greyish edgings ; a dark streak 

 from the base of the bill to the eye, and a white one above it ; chin and throat 

 rather sullied ; foreneck and breast the same, but suffused with ashy brown, 

 darker on the sides, where the feathers are indistinctly dark shafted ; back, 

 scapulars and tertials dusky, the feathers edged with white or greyish white 

 spots ; axillaries white, with transverse oblique dusky brown spots ; primaries, 

 secondaries and their coverts dusky brown, the shaft of the first quill and the 

 tips of the later inner ones white ; the greater wing coverts margined and 

 tipped with white ; rump, upper and lower tail coverts and abdomen white ; tail 

 with the central feathers longest and barred with black and white alternately, 



