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from the base of the upper mandible to the eye ; upper parts blackish brown with greenish sheen, the 

 feathers margined with white and pale greyish buff spots, giving the upper parts a slightly spotted 

 appearance; quills blackish brown, the shaft of the first primary white; upper tail-coverts white; 

 central rectrices rather elongated, coloured like the back, but barred with buffy grey and white; 

 remaining rectrices white, barred with blackish brown ; chin white ; sides of the head, neck, and breast 

 washed with buffy grey and striped with blackish brown ; breast and flanks more broadly striped, rest 

 of the underparts white ; under tail-coverts and axillaries white, slightly barred with blackish brown ; 

 under wing-coverts dark grey, broadly edged with white ; bill black, the under mandible olive-greenish 

 at the base; iris dark brown; legs greenish ochreous. Total length about 7"5 inches, culmen l - 25, 

 wing 4-9, tail 2 - 15, tarsus 1-45, bare portion of tibia 0'85. 



Adult Female. Resembles the male. 



Adult in winter (Java). Does not differ much from the bird above described; the white margins to the 

 feathers on the upper parts are broader, especially on the head and neck, the upper parts are rather 

 paler, the throat and neck less striped with dark brown, but more washed with buffy grey, and the 

 flanks are much less marked with dark brown. 



Young in down (Boel, Jutland) . A streak from the forehead and the entire centre and hind crown blackish 

 brown, and a narrow blackish streak from the base of the upper mandible through the eye to the hind 

 neck, which is also blackish brown, rest of the head warm buff; upper parts warm rufous buff blotched 

 with blackish brown ; underparts buffy white, the sides of the neck washed with warm buff. 



In this stage of plumage Totanus glareola differs from Tot. ochropus in having the upper parts more rufous, 

 the underparts more buff, these latter being white in Totanus ochropus, and in the present species the 

 centre of the crown is covered by one large blackish brown patch, forming a sort of cap, whereas in 

 Totanus ochropus the crown is streaked with black, these streaks becoming confluent only on the nape. 



The Wood-Sandpiper is found throughout the entire Palsearctic Region, ranging in winter south- 

 ward to South Africa and the Philippine Islands. 



In Great Britain it occurs here and there as a somewhat rare straggler during passage ; but, 

 so far as I can ascertain, there is but one undoubted instance on record of it having remained to 

 breed. In some parts of the south coast it is perhaps more frequently met with than elsewhere. 

 Mr. Mansel-Pleydell says that it is very rare in Dorsetshire ; but Mr. Cecil Smith informs me 

 that it occurs not unfrequently in Devonshire, but that he only knows of one specimen obtained 

 in Somersetshire, killed near Taunton on the 9th May, 1870. I have seen it on several occasions 

 in Kent and Sussex ; and it visits the eastern counties now and again. Mr. Stevenson, who gives 

 full particulars respecting those which have been recorded as obtained in Norfolk during the last 

 few years, says (B. of Norf. ii. p. 226) that, "as compared with the Green Sandpiper, it is a rare 

 visitant to our coast, appearing only occasionally, and at uncertain intervals, on its migratory 

 course in spring and autumn. At such times also, in company with other migratory Waders, it 

 is usually met with in close vicinity to the coast, and a very large proportion of the specimens 

 procured in Norfolk have been killed on Breydon." Mr. Cordeaux has never observed it in the 

 Humber District; but Mr. John Hancock says (Birds of North. & Durh. p. 121), it is "a rare 

 spring and autumn migrant, arriving early in May, and leaving in August and September. In 

 Selby's catalogue three captures are recorded. The first at Ellingham, in the autumn of 1828 ; 



