Indian Birds 
spotted with white. The abdomen is white, 
as is also the tail. 
The habits of this species are very like those 
of the snipe, so that the sportsman out shoot- 
ing constantly puts up the bird, but it can be 
distinguished from the snipe, because instead 
of emitting the sharp.“ psip ” of the snipe on 
rising, it utters a shrill note. Moreover, it is 
a much smaller bird than even the Jack-snipe. 
194. Totanus ochropus: The Green Sand- 
piper. (F. 1462), (J. 892), (+11, but with a 
short tail.) 
This bird is very like the last species, except 
that it is larger and less conspicuously spotted, 
and has more white in the tail. It is distin- 
guishable from the snipe, alongside of which it 
is often found, by its “shrill piping note,” 
which it utters on the wing, and its white tail, 
which is conspicuous as it flies away. 
A winter visitor; commoner in N. India 
than in the south. 
195. Iringa minuta: ‘The Little Stint. 
(F. 1471), (J. 884), (+1, but with a short tail.) 
Upper parts dingy brown, with white fore- 
head and under parts. 
“Tf,” writes Eha, “ you see a hundred dingy 
little birds, about the size of sparrows, all 
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