Nest, &c. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
76 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. — Sanvrrrer. 
on the moors of Northumberland in August, and have now 
in my collection two beautiful specimens, killed by the side 
of a small mountain rill. Another, also killed in the same 
county, is now in the museum of the Natural History So- 
ciety at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and Jonn Murray, Esq. of 
Murraythwaite in Dumfriesshire, possesses a male and fe- 
male, shot by him when together, near that place in the 
spring of 1829.—This species occurs throughout the great- 
est part of continental Europe, frequenting inland rivers and 
waters, and is said to retire into the northern central parts 
to breed. The nest is made by the side of some stream, and 
the eggs (according to TEmMMinck) are of a greenish-white, 
blotched with brown. It is also found in several parts of 
Asia.—By many writers this has been confounded with an- 
other species, viz. T'otanus Glareola, the Wood Sandpiper ; 
and Latuam, in the Supplement to his General Synopsis, 
has unaccountably united them, although, in his Index Or- 
nithologicus, they stand as distinct species. Monracu, 
however, in his Ornithological Dictionary and its Supple- 
ment, has pointed out the peculiar distinctions of each, and 
which are indeed so strongly marked, as to render the dis- 
crimination of the two birds a matter of no doubt to those 
who have an opportunity of examining them. 
PrateE 16. Fig. 2. Represents the Green Sandpiper, from a 
specimen killed on the moors near Twizell, as above 
mentioned, apparently a bird of the year, as it has the 
distinguishing marks of that state, as given by Trem- 
MINCK. 
The crown of the head hair-brown. The streaks passing 
above and below the eye white, speckled with hair- 
brown; the intermediate space being dark hair-brown. 
Chin and throat white. The sides and back part of 
the neck hair-brown, tinged with grey, and varied with 
fine striz of greyish-white. Fore part of the neck and 
breast white, with lance-shaped spots of hair-brown. 
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