88 
Var. A. 
Woop. 
Descrip- 
TION. 
WOOD SANDPIPER. Cass Il. 
‘Tringa glareola. Tr. rostro le- orn. 730. id. Syn. v. 172. 
vi, pedibus virescentibus, Gm. Lin. 677. 
corpore fusco albo punctato, © Wood Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. 
pectore albido. Lath. Ind. i. 188. 
[THIS variety is about the size of a stare. Its 
back is of a dusky color, spotted with white ; 
the primaries and secondaries dusky; the last 
tipt with white; the breast and belly whitish ; 
the tail barred with black and white; the out- 
most feathers lightest; the rump white; the 
legs of a dirty green. 
Mr. Montagu supposes this to be a distinct 
species, and has given a very detailed description 
of it in his excellent ornithological dictionary; he 
observes that the legs are singularly long in pro- 
portion to the body, and by far superior in length 
to any species of sandpiper of equal size. 
Dr. Latham, in his second supplement, is 
inclined to believe that the Green and Wood 
sandpipers, the Trznga Ochropus, and the Tringa 
Glareola, form only one species. Ep. 
