THE GREEN-LEGGED TATTLERS. 
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Helodromas soliiarius, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 444 
(1896). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plnmage. — Similar to H. ochropus, but 
smaller, and wanting the white rump of the latter species ; the 
rump, as well as the mesial upper tail-coverts dusky-b ackish ; 
the lateral upper tail-covcrts white, broadly b.yred with black, 
exactly like the tail-feathers, all of which have broad bla(± bars; 
under surface of body resembling that of //. ochropus, but the 
white bars on the axillaries and under wing-coverts much wider 
than in that species ; Ijill greenish-black ; the edges of the eye- 
lids dark grey ; feet greenish-grey, claws brownish-black ; ins 
brown. Total length, 7 inches; culmcn, V2 ; wing, 5-1 ; tail, 
2'i ; tarsus, I'iS. 
Winter Plnmage.— Differs from the winter plumage of H.ochro- 
i>us exactly in the same way as the summer plumage of the two 
birds differ. From the summer plumage it is distinguished by 
being more uniform above, with scarcely any white spots, the 
head uniform and not streaked with white; eyelid and a supra- 
loral streak white ; lower throat, fore-neck, and sides of neck 
ashy-brown, slightly mottled with darker brown spots or bars. 
Yonng after the Pirst Moult.— Similar to the winter plumage of 
the adults, but all the margins of the feathers of the back and 
wings are notched or spotted with light rufous-brown ; under 
surface of body pure white, the lower throat streaked with brown, 
and the sides of the fore-neck and of the breast nearly uniform 
dark brown. 
Range In Great Britain. — Three specimens of this species are 
recorded as having been procured in the British Islands. Ihe 
first was obtained on the banks of the Clyde, the second m the 
Scilly Islands, and the third in Cornwall. 
Bange outside the British Islands. — The “ Solitary Sandpiper 
or “ Wood-Tattler,” as it is called by the American ornitholo- 
gists is generally distributed throughout North America during 
the nesting-season, breeding, in suitable localities, from Alaska 
to the Atlantic coast, ranging south, in winter, through Central 
America, the West Indies, to Brazil and Paraguay. 
Habits The following is taken from Mr. D. G. Elliot’s recent 
work on American Shore-birds “ While loving solitude, it is 
