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Genus HELODKOM AS, 



741. HELODROMAS OCHROPUS. 



TIIU (IIMWN SANDI'll'I'lli, 



Tringa ocrophus, Linn. .sy/.sV. .\<i/. i. p. L'fiO. Actitis ochropus, ./<;</. /;. !//</. ii. 

 p. <>'.)S; /'/. /.'. /.'ww. p. ir>r>. Tetanus ochropus, //unn, A. /'. iii. p. 

 /> . . />'// As- A'///-, viii. p. U '.-". pi.; A//W f/ Oust. O/x. ('/////, p. !('>.'>; 



/, A AT. *. /'. \i. p. -I;-J; ///////-, ,v. /'. \iii. p. 1 1:; ; 



S' //////. -v. A! \iii. p. ""> 7 ; /<<//.</'' /'/>( AN- ( ', ///.>//. p. S(W ; Hiniilnnn, -V. /'. i\. p. IS>7; 

 Oatw, S. F. x. p, 240, Holodromas ochropus, /,/,>/ /;//"/. /.V/v/.s-, //y/V. o/-//. 

 ZTmon, p, 174, 



Di-sri'i/rtioH. liin/cr JI/IIIIHH/I'. Koivhcad, crown, nape and hind neck 

 asliy ln-oM'n ; hack, scapulars, Icrhancs and winj;'-covcrls asliy hro\\ n, cadi 

 I'caihcr willi a .scries of whitish spoison I he cd^cs of holh wchs ; primaries 

 and secondaries hrown ; rump hrown ; upper lail-coverls pni'e \\lii ((>; (ail 

 willi the hasc while, the remainder while' harred hroadlv witli hhick , the 

 hars hccoimn;; lost on t he outermost leal hers, which arc nearly all white; 

 chin and upper throat pure white; a brown streak from the hill to the eye 

 and a whitish snpercihiiin ; sides ol face and neck, lore neck and breast 

 while with dusky streaks; remainder of the lower plumage while; a\illa- 

 rics and under win^-covcrls dark brown narrowly barred with while. 



/// stimnicr the head and hind neck become streaked with greyish white, 

 llu- upper plumage is darker, and the Tore neck, breast and sides of the 

 neck arc more densely streaked with brown. 



Iris dark brown; terminal half of bill dark hrown, basal hall' dusky 

 ^rcen ; le^s and Iocs pale dull jjrccn ; claws dark horn-colonr. 



Length .)-,') inchi's, tail :J-('>, wini; .V'.), larsns I I, bill from -ape K). Tlie 

 female is of about the same sr/.e. 



The (liven Sandpiper is not very common, but it is generally spread 

 Over the Province in the winter. Mr. Davison tailed to meet with it in 

 'l\Miasscrim . but this Mas due lo accident, for both Dr. Armstrong and 

 Mr. Davis procured it in (he northern part of that Division. 



It occurs, according to season, throughout Knropc, Africa and Asia, 

 extending south-east in the hitler continent as far as (Vehin (Miina, but 

 apparently not down the Malay peninsula or into the archipelago. It 

 breeds in Northern Asia and Knro.v, sonic birds, houc\cr, remaining in 

 ('cntral Asia and (Mima lor this pnrpo c. 



I have 1 generally round this Siuulpiper in paddy-iields in company with 

 Snipi'. and 1 have comparatively seldom seen it on the banks of streams. 

 It has the remarkable habit of depositing its ci^s in the deserted nests of 

 ot her birds in trees. 



