I gather from Nuttall that this bird very much 

 resembles its near relation, our Green Sandpiper {Tota- 

 nus ochropus), in habits, as it certainly does in appear- 

 ance, but with the important difference that in the 

 latter species the rump and upper tail-coverts are pure 

 white, whilst in the American bird the feathers of these 

 parts are of a greenish brown, with scanty white spots. 

 It seems that little or nothing authentic has been dis- 

 covered as to the nidification of the present species. 



