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GHEEN SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus ochropus,) 
To. dorso J'usco-viridi, ahdomine rectricihusqiie extimis albis, i^e- 
dibiis virescentibus. 
Sandpiper with the back of a brown-green, the belly and outer 
tail-feathers white, the legs greenish. 
Totanus ochropus. Temm. man. d'Orn. 420. Id. 2 Edit, ii, 651. 
Tringa ochropus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 250. Gniel. Syst. Nat, 1. 
676. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 729. 
Tringa Aldrovandi. Raii Syn. 108. A. 7- 8. Briss. Orn. 5. 
I77.pl. ]6.f.\. 
Le Becasseau, ou cul blanc. Buff". Ois. 7. 534. Btiff. PI. EnL 
Young. 
Green Sandpiper. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 201. Penn. Ay-ct. Zool. 
2. 389. Lath. Gen, Syn. 5. 170. Lew. Brit. Birds, 5. pi. 170. 
Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Beta. Brit. Birds, 2. 100. 
Wood Sandpiper. Linn. Trans. 1. 130. /^ 2. 
Unlike its congeners, this species differs but little 
in its summer and winter dresses ; the variations be- 
tween the two consisting of a greater number of 
small dots o;n the upper parts of the plumage, and 
the spots on the fore part of the neck being more 
distinct in the summer season. The total length of 
the bird is about eight inches and a half : its irides 
are deep brown : all the upper parts of the plumage 
are brown, slightly shaded with olive and with green 
reflections : the feathers of the back, the scapulars, 
and the wing-coverts are prettily edged with very 
small white dots : between the beak and the eye is a 
band of white and another of brown : the upper tail- 
