62 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
257. Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocropha”’). 
Range.—Eastern Hemisphere. Breedsin the northern parts of Europe and Asia; winters from southern 
Europe and China to Africa and the Malay Archipelago; accidentalin Nova Scotia. 
Names.—This species, of course, has no vernacular names in the United States; the 
following are applied to it in Great Britain: Horse-gowk, martin snipe, and summer 
snipe; and these in France: Becasseau (little snipe), chevalier cul-blane (white- 
tailed sandpiper), and cul-blanc (white-tail). A book name for the species is white- 
tailed tattler. 
257.1 Wood Sandpiper (Rhyacophilus glareola). 
Range.—Eastern Hemisphere. Breedsin Europe and northern Asia; southin winter to Africa, India, 
the Malay region, and Australia; accidental on the Pribilof Islands andin Alaska. 
Names.—This species has received no names in America; wood sandpiper appears 
universally in English works; in French the species has tv7vo names with the same 
meaning—chevalier des bois and chevalier sylvain. 
258. Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus). (Fie. 46.) 
Range.—There are two subspecies of the willet having the following ranges: 
Eastern Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus).—North and South America. Breeds 
from Virginia (formerly Nova Scotia) south to Florida and the Bahamas, and on the coast of the Guli of 
Mexico west to Louisiana and Texas; winters from the Bahamas and Texas to Braziland Deru; accidental 
in Bermuda and Europe. 
Western Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus).—Western North America. Breeds from © 
Central Oregon, southern Alberta, and southern Manitoba south to No:thern California, central Colorado, 
southern South Dakota, and northern Jowa; winters from Central Calijoinia, Texas, Louisiana, and Gulf 
coast of Florida to Mexico (Lower California, ‘tcpic, and Guerrero); in fal} migration occurs in British 
Columbia and on the Atlantic coast ‘rom New England south. 
FIG. 46.—Willet. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
The vernacular names appear clearly separable into eastern and western groups cor- 
responding to the distribution of the subspecies, but thisis deceptive, since the western 
subspecies visits the Atlantic Coast in large numbers in the fall migration and then 
goes under the familiar names for the eastern form. 
In general use.—Willet (a distinctive Atlantic Coast name, sparingly introduced 
westwardly). 
In local use.—Dill-willie (I'la.); candle-stick plover, gray-plover (Calif.); humility, 
pied-winged curlew (Mass.); stone-curlew (N. C.,S. C., Ga., I'la.); telltale, vire-vire, 
(turn-and-twist) (La.); whitewing (N. S., Mass.); whitewing curlew (i‘la.); white- 
winged plover (Calif.); will-willet (N. C., 8. C.). 
29 Helodromas ocrophus, 
