156 GREEN SANDPIPER. 



the bill there is a dusky patch; iris, hazel, over it from 

 the base of the upper mandible extends a whitish streak. 

 Head on the crown, neck on the back, and nape, dusky 

 greenish brown, slightly waved with a darker shade, and 

 speckled with small triangular white spots or streaks; chin, 

 white; throat, white, streaked downwards with dusky grey 

 and pale greenish arrow-headed lines; breast above, white, on 

 the sides and upper part streaked with greyish black and pale 

 greenish; below, white; back, dusky brownish green, undulated 

 with darker shades, and studded with small triangular-shaped 

 white spots. 



The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greater 

 and lesser wing coverts, also dusky green, waved with darker 

 colour; primaries and secondaries, dusky black, the shafts 

 darkest the latter are very long; tertiaries, also very long, 

 dusky black, tinged with green, and with numerous small 

 light-coloured spots on the outside margins; greater and 

 lesser under wing coverts, deep greyish black, with narrow 

 cross-bars of white of a V, or 'chevron,' shape. Tail, white 

 at the base, the outside feather on each side nearly immaculate, 

 but with one small dark spot or bar on the outer web near 

 the end, the next feather with two dark spots, the third and 

 fourth with two rather large broad dark bands, the fifth 

 and sixth respectively with three or four dark bands; upper 

 tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, greenish grey black; the 

 middle and outer ones are united by a short membrane. 

 Claws, dusky. 



