TOTANUS 789 



ground scantily lined with grass-bents or dead leaves, or else 

 quite unlined. The eggs, 4 in number, are usually deposited 

 late in May or early in June, and vary a good deal, having the 

 ground-colour from light drab to dark clay-ochre, the shell- 

 markings pale purplish grey, and the surface spots and blotches 

 black or blackish brown. In size they measure about I fl 78 

 by 113. 



1089. GREEN SANDPIPER. 

 TOTANUS OCHROPUS. 



Totanus ochropus (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766) ; Naum. viii. p. 51), 

 Taf. 197 ; Gould, iv. pi. 315, fig. 1 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 56 ; 

 Dresser, viii. p. 135, pi. 564 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 465 ; 

 Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 325 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. 

 p. 437 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 872 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. 

 p. 262 ; Saunders, p. 609 ; Lilford, v. p. 105, pi. 46 ; Kidgway, 

 p. 166 ; Poynting, p. 209, pi. 44. 



Chevalier cul-blanc, French ; Lavandera grande, Cherlovita, 

 Span. ; Culbianco, Ital. ; Puriktirter- Wasserlciufer, German ; 

 Witgatje, Dutch ; Graabenet Klire, Dan. ; Grraabenet-Sneppe, 

 Norweg. ; Skagswappa, Swed. ; Mustasiipi-vikla, Finn. ; Tscher- 

 nysch, Russ. 



$ ad. (Spain). Crown, sides of head, and neck blackish brown, striped 

 with white ; upper parts blackish brown, tinged with metallic olivaceous 

 and spotted with white ; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, base of tail, and 

 outermost tail-feathers white, rest of tail blackish brown, with three bars 

 and the tips white ; under parts white ; the neck and flanks closely marked 

 with blackish brown ; axillaries brownish black with narrow white angular 

 bars ; bill blackish, tinged with grey at the base ; legs lead-grey, washed 

 with green on the joints ; iris dark brown. Culmen 1'4, wing 5*4, tail 2*55, 

 tarsus 1*33 inch. Sexes alike. In winter the upper parts are uniform 

 greyish brown unspotted, and the crown and hind neck are ashy brown 

 with a white streak above the eye. 



Hal. Europe generally, north to the Arctic Circle but not in 

 Lapland, breeding down to the north central portions, passing 

 down to South Europe and Africa as far as the Cape Colony in 

 winter ; Asia, north to Kamchatka, east to Japan ; south in 

 winter to the Malay Archipelago ; Corea ; China ; Burma, 

 India, and Ceylon; of accidental occurrence in Nova Scotia. 



Is generally to be found near inland ponds and streams, 

 seldom on the coast, often at ponds in the woodlands. Its note 

 is a clear loud dlee-dlee-dlee, uttered quickly, and its flight is 

 swift and graceful. Like its allies it feeds on insects, larvae, and 



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