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GREEN SANDPIPER. 



loosely put together on the outside, but increasing in compactness as 

 the structure advances ; and when a layer of fine roots has been worked 

 as a middle wall, the bird then begins a thick texture of hair, similar to 

 that of the wagtail, but more neatly rounded and compact. The nest, 

 however, is by no means so handsome as that of the chaffinch, and it is 

 not quite so deep.* 1 



The eggs are four or five in number, white, speckled with rusty-red 

 at the larger end, much like those of the linnet, but larger; their 

 weight thirty-seven grains. Its food is principally seed and grain. 



The native song of this bird is trifling, but in confinement it becomes 

 very tame and docile, and will catch the notes of other birds. 



GREEN GROSSBE AK. — A name for the Greenfinch. 



GREEN-HEADED BUNTING {Emberiza chlorocephala, 

 Gmelin.) 



*GmeL Syst. 2. p. 887.— Emberiza Tunstalli, Lath. Ind. 1. 418. 69.— Syn. 3. p. 

 211. 61.— Gen. Hist. 5. p. 298.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. p. 76.— Brown, Illust. 

 p. 74. 30.— Mont. Diet.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 77. 



This species has the head and neck dull olive-green ; back and wing 

 coverts dusky brown, mixed with black ; paler on the rump ; the rest 

 of the wings, breast, and belly, deep brown ; tail brown, forked ; legs 

 yellowish, in other respects it resembles the yellow-hammer. 



This bird is not mentioned by Temminck ; while Latham and Flem- 

 ing agree in thinking it a variety of the yellow-hammer, (Emberiza 

 citrinella, Linnaeus.) The one in Tunstal's collection, and figured by 

 Brown, was caught in Mary-le-bone Fields. Colonel Montagu had 

 one with the whole head and neck greenish yellow.* 



GREEN LEGGED HORSEMAN.— A name for the Green Shank. 

 GREEN LINNET.— A name for the Greenfinch. 

 GREEN PLOVER.— A name for the Lapwing. 

 GREEN SANDPIPER (Totanus ochropus, Temminck.) 

 Tringa Ochropus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 250. 13.— Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 676.— Ind. Orn. 2. 

 p. 729. 12.— Tringa Aldrovandi, Eaii, Syn. p. 108. A. 7. 8.— Will, p. 222. 

 223. t. 55.— Ib. (Angl.) p. 300. 301. t. 55.— Briss. 5. p. 177. 1. t. 16. f. 1.— 

 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 259. — Tringa glareola ! ! ! Lath. Supp. 2. p. 311. — Linn. Trans. 

 1. p. 128. — Totanus ochropus, Temm. 2. p. 651. — Becasseau, ou Cul-blanc, Buff. 

 7, p. 534.— Green Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 1. No. 201.— Ib. fol. 125. t. F. 2. f. 3. 

 — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 389.— Lath. Syn. 5. p. 170. 12.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 

 170.— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 15. — Ftem. p. 103. — Wood Sandpiper, Linn. Trans, 

 l.p. 130. t. 2. 



This elegant species weighs about three ounces and a quarter ; length 

 full ten inches ; the bill is an inch and a half in length, very slender, 

 and dusky ; irides hazel ; head, neck, and breast, are marked with 

 numerous streaks of dusky and ash-colour, largest on the latter ; over 

 the eye a whitish streak ; back, scapulars, and wing coverts, brown, 



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