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rump, wing-coverts and tertials are dark dull green, 

 on the margins and tips of the feathers are small 

 spots of dirty white ; the primary and secondary- 

 quills are black; the upper tail- coverts are pure 

 white ; the tail-feathers are very distinctly barred 

 with black and white, the outside feathers on each 

 side having the most white ; the chin is white ; the 

 throat white, streaked with dusky ; the sides of the 

 neck and breast dusky ; the belly and under tail- 

 coverts pure white ; the axillary plume black, regu- 

 larly barred with narrow streaks of white rather in 

 the shape of a V with the point towards the base of 

 the feather ; the lesser under wing- coverts slightly 

 spotted on the margins with white ; the greater are 

 black. The axillary plume will at once distinguish 

 this bird from the Wood Sandpiper, a bird which it 

 much resembles and which has often been mistaken 

 for it, which perhaps is the reason I have not been 

 able to include it in this list, as it may very probably 

 have occurred and been overlooked ; the axillary 

 plume and under wing-coverts, in the Wood Sand- 

 piper, are white, with a few transverse dusky bars ; 

 the tail-feathers also differ, as in the Green Sand- 

 piper the black bars do not extend to the base 

 of the feather, which is white, and in the Wood 

 Sandpiper these feathers are barred all the way 

 down. The legs, toes and claws of the present 

 species are greenish black. The young birds of the 

 year do not differ much, except that the whitish spots 



