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GREEN SANDPIPER 
loosely put tog-ether 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 beg-ins a thick texture of hair, similar to 
that of the wag-tail, 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.* ‘ 
The eg-gs 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 GROSSBEAK. — A name for the Greenfinch. 
GREEN-HEADED BUNTING (Emberiza chlorocepliala, 
Gmelin.) 
mGmel, Syst. 2. p. 887. — Emberiza Tunstalli, Lath. Ind. 1. 418. 69. — Syn. 3. p. 
211. 61. — Gen. Hist. 5. p. 298.— Lewm’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, Raii, 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.— 
Ih. 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. — lb. 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. — Flem. ip. 103. — Wood Sandpiper, Linn. Trans. 
1. 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. 
* Architecture of Birds, p. 244. 
