BRITISH BIRDS. 



99 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 



(Totaims Ochropus, Temm. Chevalier cul-blanc, 

 Temm.) 



THIS bird measures about ten inches in length, 

 to the end of the toes nearly twelve, and weighs 

 about three ounces and a half. The bill is black, 

 and an inch and a half long : a pale streak extends 

 from it over each eye; between which and the 

 corners of the mouth, there is a dusky patch. The 

 crown of the head and hinder part of the neck are 

 dingy brownish ash, in some narrowly streaked 

 with white: throat white: fore part of the neck 

 mottled or streaked with brown spots, on a white 

 or pale ash ground. The whole upper parts of the 

 plumage glossy bronze, or olive brown, elegantly 

 marked on the edge of each feather with small 

 roundish white spots : the quills are without spots, 

 and of a darker brown : the secondaries and tertials 

 very long: insides of the wings dusky, edged with 



