Order CHABADRIIFORMES Family 8C0L0PACIDJE. 
TRINGA OCROPHUS ASSAMI. 
EASTERN GREEN SANDPIPER. 
(Plate 160.)* 
Teinga ocheopus ASSAMI Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 188, 1913 ; Assam. 
Tetanus leucurus (not Brehm) Gray and Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool., Vol. II., pi. 51, 
fig. 1, 1834. 
Tetanus echrejms (not L.) Middendorff, Sibirisclie Reise, Vol. II., p. 216, 1851 ; Schrenck, 
Vogel des Amur-Landes, p. 416, 1860 ; Radde, Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 330, 
1863 ; Seebohm, Ibis 1879, p. 152 ; id., Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 368, 1887 ; 
Taezanowski, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., 
p. 872, 1893. 
Actitis echrepus Biddulph, Ibis 1881, p. 96 (Gilgit, India). 
Heledremus echrepus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 437, 1896. 
Tringa echrepus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 221, 1912. 
Disteibittion. Siberia (breeding), migrating southwards to the Malay Archipelago in 
winter. 
Adult male, in breeding-plumage. Dark brown above, the feathers on the head, hind-neck, 
and sides of neck margined with white, those on the back and scapulars spotted 
with white ; a well-defined line of white on the sides of the forehead to the eye ; 
the short upper tail-coverts barred with white, the long ones wholly white ; wings 
almost entirely dark brown above ; tail white, barred and spotted with dark 
brown ; lores, sides of face, and fore-neck white, minutely streaked with dark brown ; 
sides of breast dark brown, coarsely marked with white ; axillaries and imder 
wing-coverts dark brown, narrowly barred with white ; lower primary-coverts 
uniform dark brown like the quill-lining ; breast, abdomen, lower-flanks, and under 
tail-coverts white. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male, in winter-plumage. Differs from the adult male in nuptial-dress in being darker 
and more uniform above, with no white streaks on the head or neck and only very 
dull and nearly obsolete white spots scattered over the back and wings ; a weU- 
defiued line of white on the sides of the forehead to the eye, also a narrow white 
ring encircling the eye ; sides of face and sides of neck darker and more heavily 
streaked, as also the fore-neck ; bill brownish black ; iris brown ; tarsi and feet 
green. Total length 227 mm. ; culmen 36, wing 143, tail 61, tarsus 36. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but larger. 
Nest. “ In Siberia it lays its eggs in the old nest of a Fieldfare ” (Seebohm). 
* The Plate is lettered Tringa ocrophua. 
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