EASTERN GREEN SANDPIPER. 
to Przewalski it arrives on Lake Khanka towards March 2nd, and its autumn 
migration takes place between the middle of August and the middle of 
September.” 
“ It certainly nests on the Island of SakhaHne ; we have often observed 
it in the VaUey of the Douika during the latter half of June and in July ” 
(Nikolski). 
The bird figured and described is a male in winter-plumage, collected at 
Assam on January 28th, 1902. 
The Eastern form differs from the Western in being much paler above and 
is also shghtly larger. 
Linne called this species Tringa ocrophus and this has been generally 
amended to ochropus. Recently in the Hand-List of British Birds the original 
spelhng was correctly adhered to, but unfortunately the reason given is not 
correct ; thus page 181, footnote, reads : “ It has been supposed that ‘ ocrophus ’ 
is an error for ‘ ochropus,’’ but this is not so. Linnseus adopted the name 
‘ Ocrophus ’ from the ‘ Ocrophus sive Rhodophus ’ of Gesner, Aldrovandus, and 
other older writers. — E. H.” 
Linne’s references read : — 
“ Rhodophus s. Ocrophus Gesn. av., 508-511. 
Aldr. orn., 1. 20 c. 39.” 
Upon investigation in no place do either Gesner or Aldrovandus spell 
the words Rhodophus nor Ocrophus. 
Six times Aldrovandus uses the latter, four times spelhng it Ochropus, the 
other two Ocropus, while the speUing of the former is Rhodopus. Gesner also 
speUs the latter quite correctly Rhodopus, and spells Ochropus four times, no 
other spelhng occurring. 
The purists have therefore good grounds for emendation, but then they 
are inconsistent if they admit the emended name, as it is quite inapphcable 
to this bird and would need rejection as untrue. 
This is another species which has not yet any good grounds for inclusion 
in the Austrahan List. Recorded by Hall in the Viet. Nat., Vol. XVII., p. 163, 
1902, from North-west Australia, I had the plate prepared and the matter 
drawn up before I found out that one of the birds upon which the record was 
based was in the Rothschild Museum, Tring. I immediately went there to 
examine the bird in connection with this work, and was surprised to find that it 
did not belong to this species at all, but was Rhyaocophilus glareola affinis. 
I am including the plate and these notes, and would ask Austrahan ornith- 
ologists to look out for this bird, as it may yet be found. It should be noted 
that when Hall first recorded this species, he noted that the specimens did not 
agree with the description in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 
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