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appearing to be in the least alarmed; he had no doubt that these birds regularly 
bred on Pocano Mountain, near Easton, although he could never find their nests. 
He notes their resemblance, both in manners and markings, to B. ochropus, or the 
Green Sandpiper of Europe. 
Nutt all states that a pair frequented, very familiarly, the small fish-pond in the 
Botanic Garden in Cambridge, attracted by larvse that fed on the water-lily. They 
would trip over the sinking leaves with all the lightness and agility of the Bail. 
Mr. Nelson, in his “Notes on the Birds of Northeastern Illinois,” speaks of this 
species as a common migrant, arriving the 1st of May, and remaining until about the 
25th, when the majority go farther north. He has several times taken young birds 
near a prairie slough, which were just able to fly, and has noted the presence of adults 
throughout the breeding-season, and does not think there can be the slightest doubt 
that this species breeds in that vicinity, taking its departure southward in August 
and September. The same writer noticed this Tattler as being common on the banks 
of the Humboldt, near Elko, Nevada, the young being half -grown. It frequented the 
sloughs in the meadows, but only a single pair was seen in each. 
Early in August, 1878, I noticed a pair of this species with a brood of four young 
hardly able to fly, near an open reservoir of rain-water, on Appledore, Isles of Shoals. 
These were too young to have come to that island over the water, the distance being 
nine miles ; and that this brood could have been hatched on that rocky and treeless 
island seemed very improbable. They were in company with, yet holding aloof from, 
several pairs of Trincjoides maculcirius. My near presence at first appeared greatly 
to alarm the parents ; but they were soon quieted, as I did nothing to disturb them, 
and they then resumed their search for worms in the black mud on the edge of the 
water. 
Eggs of T. macularius, as a general rule, are made to do duty for those of this 
species. The only egg which I have seen, and have reason to accept as authentic, 
was one taken in May, 1878, by Mr. Jenness Richardson, near Lake Bombazine, Ver- 
mont. The nest was on the ground, and the female parent was shot as she left it. 
The egg measured 1.37 by .95 inches, the ground-color being a light drab, similar 
to that of JEgialitis meloda ; over this were scattered small rounded markings of 
brown, some of these quite dark, nowhere confluent, and not large enough to be 
called blotches. At the larger end there were a few faint purplish or lilac discolor- 
ations or shell-marks. The egg was elongated pyriform in shape. 
Rhyacophilus ochropus. 
THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 
Tringa ochrophus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, 1766, 250. 
Totanus ochropus, Temm. Man. 1815, 420. — Naum. Vog. Deutsehl. VIII. 1836, 59, pi. 197. — Keys. 
& Blas. Wirb. Eur. 73. — Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 51. — Macgill. Man. II. 94. — Gray, Gen. 
B. III. 573 ; Cat. Brit. II. 1863, 158. 
Rhyacophilus ochropus, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. Vol. 3, 1880, 200 ; Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 
551. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 636. 
Totanus rivalis and T. leucourus, Brehm, Vog. Deutsehl. 
Green Sandpiper, Yark. Brit. B. ed. 2, II. 595, fig.; ed. 3, II. 642, fig.; et Auct. 
Hab. The Palrearctic Region, straying to Eastern North America (Nova Scotia, Harting). 
Sp. Char. Adult in summer : Similar to It. solitarius, but upper tail-coverts pure white, with- 
out markings ; tail white, the middle feathers widely barred, clear across, with dusky, the lateral 
feathers with only one bar, or immaculate, the others barred only toward ends. Lining of wing 
