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GREEN SANDPIPER. 
the bill there is a dusky patch; iris, hazel, over it from 
the base of the upper mandible extends a whitish streak. 
Head on the crown, neck on the hack, and nape, dusky 
greenish brown, slightly waved with a darker shade, and 
speckled with small triangular white spots or streaks; chin, 
white; throat, white, streaked downwards with dusky grey 
and pale greenish arrow-headed lines; breast above, white, on 
the sides and upper part streaked with greyish black and pale 
greenish; below, white; hack, dusky brownish green, undulated 
with darker shades, and studded with small triangular-shaped 
white spots. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greater 
and lesser wing coverts, also dusky green, waved with darker 
colour; primaries and secondaries, dusky black, the shafts 
darkest—the latter are very long; tertiaries, also very long, 
dusky black, tinged with green, and with numerous small 
light-coloured spots on the outside margins; greater and 
lesser under wing coverts, deep greyish black, with narrow 
cross-bars of white of a Y, or ‘chevron/ shape. Tail, white 
at the base, the outside feather on each side nearly immaculate, 
but with one small dark spot or bar on the outer web near 
the end, the next feather with two dark spots, the third and 
fourth with two rather large broad dark bands, the fifth 
and sixth respectively with three or four dark bands; upper 
tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, greenish grey black; the 
middle and outer ones are united by a short membrane. 
Claws, dusky. 
