SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
GREEN SANDPIPER. 
ToTANUS SOLITARIUS. 
Char. Upper parts brownish olive, spotted and streaked with white ; 
wings and tail dusky, outer tail-feathers white with dark bars; under 
parts white, breast and sides with dark markings. In winter the plumage 
of the upper parts is dark ash, and the markings are less distinct. 
Nest. On a dry knoll in a wet meadow or on the margin of a pond, 
a slight depression scantily lined with grass. 
? pale buff thickly marked with brown and lilac- 
1.30 X 0.90. ' 
The Solitary Tatler of Wilson is probably, with the change 
of seasons, a general inhabitant of the whole North American 
continent. Early in May it arrives in Pennsylvania from the 
South, and a few individuals remain to breed, according to 
the above author, in the marshy solitudes of the mountains of 
Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania -, the greater part of the 
