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THE GREEN TOTANUS. Totanus ockropus. This is the 

 Green Sandpiper of some authors, and, like the last species, 

 is occasionally met with in our island, most frequently 

 during spring and autumn, and especially it is said during 

 the latter season. In the north it is not known to breed, 

 but with much reason it is supposed to do so in the south, 

 since the old birds have been met with during the summer, 

 and young specimens in the first plumage (but quite able to 

 migrate) have been killed very early in the autumn. On 

 the European continent it is pretty equally distributed, 

 but nowhere abundantly. Its extra-European range may 

 include some parts of Asia (India and Japan have been 

 named), and possibly North America. We have met with 

 very little information respecting its breeding habits. The 

 egg, as represented in the Rev. F. 0. Morris's work, is be- 

 tween the sizes of those of the Common Snipe and Dunlin, 

 and is of a pale yellowish-green colour, blotched with light- 

 grey and marked with brown, chiefly at the thicker end of 

 the egg. 



THE WOOD TOTANUS. Totanus glareola. This bird, 

 otherwise called the Wood Sandpiper, is a rarer visitant in 

 Britain than the last species, but has at various times been 

 taken in England, and is also known to visit Ireland. Be- 



