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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. V. GREEN SANDPIPER. 

 PI. 171. 



Tringa Ochropus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 251. 

 Becaffeau, ou Cul blanc. Brif. Orn. V. p. 177. 



This bird is near eleven inches in length, and eighteen in breadth. The 

 bill is black : the crown, and hind part of the head, afh-colour : over the eye 

 a pale ftreak : the upper parts of the body, greenifh brown, gloffy, and fpotted 

 with dirty white : chin, white : fore part of the neck the fame, but ftreaked 

 •with dufky : thence to the vent, white : the upper and under tail coverts, the 

 fame : the long feathers under the wings, dufky, barred with oblique white 

 lines on each fide, meeting in an angle at the fhaft : the tail, white, croffed with 

 dufky bars from the middle to the end, but the bars are leaft numerous on the 

 outer feathers : the legs are flender, and of a greenifh lead colour. 



This is a folitary fpecies, frequenting frefh waters and ftreams. I am not 

 certain, that I ever met with it except in the winter ; and then fcarcely ever 

 more than four or five together. It is faid to live fingly before the breeding 

 feafon j during that feafon, in pairs ; and after it is over, in fmall flocks, of 

 four or upwards, to eight. The flefh of this bird has a mufky fmell. 



