reddish brown and jasb grey ': in" other' examples thë..sppts* arë
less nuihefous and their 'colour more "uniform. The ;flesh»:of
the G-teen Sandpiper *is said to bere^cpllent.
This bird "visits ‘Seandiiiavia dn' spring, and remains till
August* It is nbi^ah^dfed i among the' Birds' of „Faroe
Islands or Iceland, butsoneJbr Wo exajmpl^gje.saidstó ha|e.
■been obtained as far to the North .West as HudsohW;Bay.
In spring and autumn i f J s i found over Europe generally^-dn
Franee it isfesteeirïed forits delicate?;taste.i and it is caught
irithlimed "twi^s placed near its haunts: The;birdMs ^ucjp,'
id Switzerland', Provence? and italy, Mr. Stricklands^!
served it-af Smyrna; 'M. Vieilloh'sayl dt-is found in (Egypt:
The Zoological SocietydTas^W^^^Rpcimehs^fixnnJ^T^ebk
zonds and M. Mkreteies has includeddt in hisrcatalbgue W
birds found south ofdheiiEucasUsd.tGo'k&rê®yfe^s and'Major
Franklin Brought -'specimens? from- different ^iparfesn^l India;
and M. Têmmirick ^yE'jtttdiihdbits Japajil
^ The beak fe 'gréenigh black*; |pf| iridqs;*?Ea^ek; Ifroin -the
beak -to dhe eye' a dusky brown (streak ^ovèr- dhat. and over
thefeyea white d n e ^ il^ b f thbAead?ib&te*of thé %è^kj#ra©fe
and wing-coverts;- duskygreen, slightly, undülatfed with • darker
shadesj primary quill-feathers( uri^orm 'dusky black ;; scapulars
and tertials rgreenish< brown,'with nurnkJ^W^inaJ'l'dighth
coloured spots alppg’bottfbdgés ofelhu'Scapnlary féatEefsatd
onThkoutside margin only of* theMStialSWupper * ta ik ^ vèr*ts
white^tail-feathers for the greater part whiteft^Üte-outside -
feather on,each side, with' one small dark spotenkthe outer
webuiear theiend^l the next feather with tpo-'dark^pots.j.^the;
third ^ffo u rth iwith -two ’rather broad dar^. bands; the. fifth
and sixth' 'withMhrèé 'or dour d’ö k bandsybutvall [the. 'marks
are on the rListalbalf of the tail-feathers, lêavih^;dfi^ibasal
half pure whi techin white*; throat, "feont, and sides of the
neck -whit^ streaked downwards^-with ddusky Jin êsj: -breast;
and all the bnder surface of the-body: white ;t:,sidesó!ahd akillary
plume greyish black, with narrow angular white bars ;
under wing-coverts greyish black, with narrow transverse bars
of white1! > legs, toes, and claws, greenish black.
The whole length nine inches and a half. From the carpal
.vjbint to the end'ó?the wing, five inches and five eighths; the
first quill-feather the longest in the wing.
The young have rather moré of the ash colour in their
plumage, and less of the dark green.
Of the twdfWepfeentations of feathers given below, the
upper one fr f ro n i thfTaxillary plume, the lower one from the
middle tailrféathef' of the Green Sandpiper, to show the distinction^
beseem tjiesofeathers.and two others from the same
parts in the W o ld Sandpiper, as inserted at page 538.