282 pRtECOCIal grallatores — limicol^. 



appearing to be in the least alarmed ; he had no doubt that these birds regularly 

 bred on Pocano Mountain, near Easton, although he could never find their nests. 

 He notes their resemblance, both in manners and markings, to R. ochmpus, or the 

 Green Sandpiper of Europe. 



Nuttall states that a pair frequented, very familiarly, the small iish-pond in the 

 Botanic Garden in Cambridge, attracted by larvse that fed on the water-lily. They 

 would trip over the sinking leaves with all the lightness and agility of the I^ail. 



Mr. Nelsou, in his " Notes on the Birds of Northeastern Illinois," speaks of this 

 species as a common migrant, arriving the 1st of May, and remaining until about the 

 25th, when the majority go farther north. He has several times taken young birds 

 near a prairie slough, which were just able to fly, and has noted the presence of adults 

 throughout the breeding-season, and does not think there can be the slightest doubt 

 that this species Iweeds in that vicinity, taking its departure southward in August 

 and .September. The same writer noticed this Tattler as being common on the banks 

 of the Humboldt, near Elko, Nevada, the young lieing half-grown. It frequented the 

 sloughs in the meadows, but only a single pair was seen in each. 



Early in August, 1878, I noticed a pair of this species with a brood of four young 

 hardly alile to fly, near an open reservoir of rain-water, on Appledore, Isles of Shoals. 

 These were too young to have come to that island over the water, the distance being 

 nine miles ; and that this brood could have been hatched on that rocky and treeless 

 island seemed very improbable. They were in company with, yet holding aloof from, 

 several pairs of Tringoldes macularius. My near presence at first appeared greatly 

 to alarm the parents ; but they were soon quieted, as I did nothing to disturb them, 

 and they then resumed their search for «'orms in the black mud on the edge of tlie 

 water. 



Eggs of T. macvldi-iiis, as a general rule, are made to do duty for those of this 

 species. The only egg which I have seen, aud have reason to accept as authentic, 

 was one taken in May, 1878, by Mr. Jenness Richardson, near Lake Bombazine, Ver- 

 mont. The nest was on the ground, and the female parent was shot as she left it. 

 The e.Qg measured 1.37 by .95 inches, the ground-color being a light drab, similar 

 to that of yEr/ialitis meloda. ; over this were scattered small rounded markings of 

 brown, some of these quite dark, nowhere confluent, and not large enough to be 

 called blotches. At the larger end there were a few faint purplish or lilac discolor- 

 ations or shell-marks. The egg was elongated pyriform in shape. 



Rhyacophilus ochropus. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa ochrophus, LiXN. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, 1766, 250. 



Totanus uchropus, Temm. Man. 1815, 420. — Naum. Yog. Deutschl. VIU. 1836, 59, \A. 197. — Keys. 



& Bl.\s. Wirb. Eur. 73. — Boxap. Comp. List, 1838, 51. — Macgill. Man. II. 94. — Gkay, Gen. 



B. III. 573 ; Cat. Biit. B. 1863, 158. 

 BhyamphUus ochropus, RiDGW. Proc. V. S. Xat. Miis. Vol. 3, 1880, 200 ; Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 



551. — CouEs, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 636. 

 Totanus rknlis and T. hucourns, BiiEHii, Viig. Deutsclil. 

 Grcm Sandpiper, Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 2, II. 595, fig.; ed. 3, II. 642, fig.; et AucT. 



Hab. The Palseavctie Region, straying to Eastern North America (Xova Scotia, Harting). 



Sp. Char. Adult in summer : Similar to R. solitai-ius, bnt upper tail-coverts jjure white, with- 

 out marking.^ ; tail wliite, the middle feathers widely barred, clear across, with dusky, the lateral 

 feathers with only one liar, or immaculate, the others barred only toward ends. Lining of wing 



