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yellowish brown, the margins barred with dusky; 

 the chin is white, streaked towards the cheeks and 

 and throat with ash ; the sides of the neck and breast 

 are dull grejdsh ash, streaked in the centre of each 

 feather with dusky; the middle of the throat and 

 breast rather lighter than the sides; the belly is 

 white : flanks and thighs white, streaked and 

 spotted with dusky ; under tail-coverts the same. 



The egg is pear-shaped, like that of the Golden 

 Plover, which it somewhat resembles, but it is rather 

 smaller, a pale whitish brown ground, tinged with 

 greenish and much spotted, particularly at the longer 

 end, with dark umber-brown ; there are also a few 

 spots of a pale purplish brown. 



GREEN SANDPIPER, Totanus ochropus. The 

 Green Sandpiper is by no means a rare summer 

 visitor, but is to be found by most of our streams 

 and pools at that time of the year ; it probably 

 breeds in the neighbourhood, as I have often seen it 

 and received specimens as early as the 8th of August, 

 which would not have given it a very long time to 

 have gone northward to breed and return again. I 

 do not, however, know of any instance in which the 

 eggs of this bird have been taken in the neighbour- 

 hood, but this may be because the egg-hunters did 

 not know where to look for the nest, being ignorant 

 of the habit this bird has of nesting in trees or in 

 the deserted nest of some other bird : this does not 

 appear, however, to be quite a universal habit, as 



