600 SCOLOPACIDvE. 



one small dark spot on the outer web near the end ; the 

 next feather with two dark spots ; the third and fourth 

 with two rather broad dark bands ; the fifth and sixth 

 with three or four dark bands, but all the marks are on the 

 distal half of the tail-feathers, leaving the basal half pure 

 white; chin white; throat, front and sides of the neck 

 white, streaked downwards with dusky lines ; breast, and 

 all the under surface of the body white ; sides and axillary 

 plume greyish black, with narrow angular white bars; 

 under wing-coverts greyish black, with narrow transverse 

 bars of white ; legs, toes, and claws, greenish black. 



The whole length nine inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, five inches and five 

 eighths ; the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. 



The young have rather more of the ash colour in their 

 plumage, and less of the dark green. 



Of the two representations of feathers given below, the 

 upper one is from the axillary plume, the lower one from 

 the middle tail-feather of the Green Sandpiper, to show 

 the distinction between these feathers and two others from 

 the same parts in the Wood Sandpiper, as inserted at 

 page 606. 



