358 TOTANIN.E. 



THE SPOTTED SAND-PIPEK. 



Length, 8*5 to 9'0 ; wing, 5 ; expanse, 16'5 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 

 1-5 ; bill at front, 1'2. 



Bill greenish, dusky-black at tip ; hides deep brown ; legs 

 pale-greenish. 



In winter, the plumage is deep brown on the forehead, crown, 

 back, and wings, with white and greyish spots on the back, 

 a dusky streak between the gape and the eye, and a white super- 

 cilium ; cheeks and nape dirty- white with ashy-brown spots ; 

 upper tail-coverts pure white, tail narrowly barred black and 

 white, the two outer feathers on each side entirely white ; throat 

 white ; foreneck and breast dirty white, with spots and streaks 

 of ashy-brown ; flanks barred with the same ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts pure white. 



In summer the feathers of the crown and nape are distinctly 

 streaked brown and white ; the feathers of the back have a large 

 black spot as well as the white spots, and the white of the lower 

 parts is purer. 



The Spotted Sand-piper is a common cold weather visitant 

 to all parts of the region ; it is perhaps less common in Sind 

 than elsewhere. 



GENUS, Totanus, JBech. 



ed at tip, groove half the le 

 tarsi with narrow scales in front ; otherwise as in Actitis. 



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

 i with narr 



Totanus ochropus, Lin. 



892. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 698 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 18; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 430 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 254 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 



THE GREEN SAND-PIPER. 



Length, 975 to 10*5 ; expanse, 18 to 19 ; wing, 5*5 to 6 ; tail, 

 3 ; tarsus, 1*5 ; bill at front, T4. 



Bill dusky green, blackish at tip ; irides brown ; legs dingy- 

 green. 



. Crown, nape, and upper parts ashy-brown, tinged with olive- 

 green ; all the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing-coverts 

 with an edging of small white spots ; quills deep brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts pure white ; tail with the basal third white ; the 

 rest white with brown bars, the two outermost feathers entirely 

 white ; a brown streak from the gape to the eye, and a white 

 supercilium ; all beneath pure white, a few of the feathers on 

 the neck and breast with dusky streaks. 



In summer, the upper parts are darker, greener, and more 

 spotted, and the streaks on the neck more distinct. 



The Green Sand-piper is a very common cold weather visitant 

 to all parts of the Presidency. 



