lOO BRITISH BIRDSo 
GREEN SANDPIPER. 
(Trmga Ochropus, Lin. — Le Bee ajfeau^ ou Cul-llanCy Buff.) 
This bird meafures about ten inches in length, 
to the end of the toes nearly twelve, and weighs 
about three ounces and a half : the bill is black, 
and an inch and a half long : a pale ftreak extends 
from it over each eye ; between which and the cor- 
ners of the mouth, there is a dufky patch. The 
crown of the head and hinder part of the neck are 
of a dingy brownifh afli- colour, in fome fpecimens 
narrowly ftreaked with white : the throat white : 
fore part of the neck mottled or ftreaked with 
brown fpots, on a white or pale afh-coloured ground. 
The whole upper parts of the plumage are of a 
glofly bronze, or olive brown, elegantly marked on 
the edge of each feather with fmall roundifh white 
fpots : the quills are without fpots, and are of a 
