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stretch of the wings twenty-one, and the weight five ounces. 

 In the summer plumage, the head and back of the neck brown 

 ash-colour, with dusky streaks along the feathers, and a 

 white streak over the eye. The back and scapulars are dusky, 

 with dull grey spots ; the coverts ash-colour, with spots of 

 brown and white ; the quills dusky, the secondaries with 

 white tips ; the rump white, more or less marked with small 

 spots, and bars of dusky ; the tail barred with black and 

 white, and the under part white, with large oblong dusky 

 spots on the centres of the feathers of the fore part, but 

 passing into pure white on the belly. In winter, the plumage 

 of the back changes to ash-brown, with dusky streaks, and 

 that of the breast to pale greenish white, with slender brown 

 streaks. The young have the upper plumage brownish, the 

 plumage on the breast ash-colour with brownish streaks, and 

 the tail feathers with reddish brown tips. 



THE GREEN SAND-PIPER (TotanUS 



This is an inland species, appearing on the margins of the 

 fresh water, rather than on the shores of the sea, and being 

 more retired and quiet in its habits than the red-shank. It 

 is not very abundant, or ; at all events, it has not been very 

 much seen in any part of the country, and it has not been 

 met with in the north. It has not been seen between the 

 end of April and the beginning of August, but it may 

 possibly, in the intermediate months, retire into the thick 

 herbage by the brooks to breed ; and thus, as it is found 

 only in the warmer and richer parts of the country, where 

 food is plentiful among the aquatic herbage, it may be 

 able to feed and rear its young without exposing itself much 

 to observation. Hitherto its eggs have not been found in 

 the country. 



The length is rather less than ten inches, and the weight 

 about three ounces and a half. The bill is about an inch 



