GREEN SANDPIPER. 
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This is a bird which returns with great regularity to its 
favourite haunts year after year, and betrays a surprising 
tameness or, it may be, fatigue on its arrival in the spring. 
Genu S — Helodromas. 
241. Helodromas ochropus. Green Sandpiper. 
A summer visitor, most commonly seen on migration, 
and not known to nest in the county. 
This bird is very difficult to classify. It has been seen 
more than once in winter, and has some claim to be 
considered as a resident. 
Gilbert White's acquaintance with this species has only 
recently been made public. 
In his Journal of August lOth, 1769, he writes: — 
" Mr. Sheffield, of Worcester College, went into Wolmer 
Forest and procured me a green sandpiper, Tringa Aldrov:, 
Triiiga ochropus, Linn : . They were in pairs and had 
been seen about by many people on the streams and banks 
of the ponds." 
In writing to Pennant in the following month he 
remarks on the pleasure of having Mr. Sheffield and 
another naturalist with him ; " no bird," he says, " came 
before them unascertained. One day we shot a Tringa 
ochropus^ which is a very rare bird in these parts." 
This passage was omitted when the letter was published, 
but is restored in Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's edition. 
Again in his Journal of October 6th, 1781, he notes 
a " Tringa ochropus or white-rumped sandpiper " at Wolmer 
Pond. 
Hawker's first specimen at Longparish is dated within 
