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TRINGA OCROPHUS 



390. Tringa ocrophus L. THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA OCROPHUS* Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 149 (1758 " Habitat 



in Europa." Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Totanus ochropus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 457 ; Saunders, p. 609. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Passage-migrant and winter-visitor. 

 Frequent autumn and spring England and Wales and often staying 

 throughout winter. Occasionally observed throughout summer, 

 and breeding often suspected but never proved. In Scotland fairly 

 frequent east, casual west, very rare north, apparently regularly 

 small numbers autumn and occasional spring, Fair Isle, and twice 

 O. Hebrides, but not recorded elsewhere Scottish isles. In Ireland 

 casual autumn and winter- visitor and twice spring (April and June). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North Europe and north Asia, in winter 

 south to Africa (even south Africa), India, and the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago. Accidental in Nova Scotia and Australia. 



TRINGA SOLITARIA 



391. Tringa solitaria solitaria Wilson THE SOLITARY 

 SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA SOLITARIA Wilson, Amer. Orn., vn, p. 53, pi. 58, fig. 3 (1813 

 Exact locality not stated. We designate Pennsylvania. See A.O.U. 

 Checklist, 1910, p. 121). 

 Totanus solitarius (Wilson), Yarrell, in, pp. x and 468 ; Saunders, p. 611. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Five. Banks of Clyde (Lanark) 

 some years previous to 1870. Scilly Isles, Sept. 21, 1882. Near 

 Marazion (Cornwall), Oct., 1884 (Saunders, p. 611). Rye Harbour 

 (Sussex), Aug. 7, 1904 (C. B. Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., xv, p. 12 ; 

 cf. Brit. B., n, p. 269). Littlestone (Kent), seen July 18, shot 

 Aug. 15, 1908 (Duchess of Bedford, Brit. B., n, pp. 136, 170). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. In summer in northern North America, 

 winters from West Indies to Argentina, and has been recorded from 

 Greenland and Bermudas. Replaced by a closely -allied form in 

 westernmost North America. 



TRINGA FLAVIPES 



392. Tringa flavipes (Gm.) THE YELLOWSHANK. 



SCOLOPAX FLAVIPES Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, ii, p. 659 (1789 New York). 

 Totanus flavipes (Gmelin), Yarrell, in, p. 480 ; Saunders, p. 613. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Three. Misson (Notts.) 1854 (?), 



* It has been supposed that ocrophus is an error f or " ochropus," but this is 

 not so. Linnaeus adopted the name " Ocrophus " from the " Ocrophus sive 

 Rhodophus " of Gesner, Aldrovandus, and other older writers. E.H. 



