Taking the measurements of three males and two females from Central Asia as recorded by Oberholser gives the following average measurements: Wing, 163; tail, 66.8; exposed culmen, 46.6; tarsus, 47.2; middle toe, 30.2.
A male from Cuyo measures: Wing, 159; tail, 61; exposed culmen, 46; tarsus, 49; middle toe with claw, 34. A female from Cuyo, wing, 151; tail, 59; exposed culmen, 43; tarsus, 47; middle toe with claw, 35.
I refer Philippine specimens of the redshank to the Asiatic subspecies as being the one more likely to occur here if two races of Totanus totanus be recognized.
Genus HELODROMAS Kaup, 1829.
Bill straight, equal to tarsus, greater than middle toe with claw; rump and tail-coverts white.
106. HELODROMAS OCHROPUS (Linnæus).
GREEN SANDPIPER.
- Tringa ocrophus[12] Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149.
- Helodromas ochropus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 437; Hand-List (1899), 1, 160; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 44; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 25.
Bohol (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Steere, Whitehead); Negros (Whitehead); Samar (Steere). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; in winter to Indian Peninsula and Malay Archipelago.
“Adult male in winter plumage.—Above uniform olive-brown with a slight gloss of bronzy olive; scapulars and wing-coverts like back, but having a few tiny white spots on the margins; lower back and rump darker, blackish brown with white edges to the feathers; upper tail-coverts pure white; lesser wing-coverts, outer median, and outer greater coverts uniform olive-brown; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, secondaries like the back and freckled with tiny white spots on the edges; tail-feathers white, the center ones with three black bars on the terminal half, these bars disappearing gradually on the lateral feathers, outer ones being entirely white; crown, hind neck, and mantle uniform ashy brown; a supra-loral streak of white; lores dusky, surmounted by an indistinct, white eyebrow, lined with blackish streaks; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks white, rather broadly streaked with blackish brown; throat white, streaked with brown on the sides; lower throat, sides of neck, and fore neck also distinctly streaked with brown; remainder of under surface pure white; sides of upper breast brown, slightly mottled with white; under wing-coverts and axillars blackish, barred very plainly with white; lower primary-coverts and inner lining of quills uniform, with white dots along the inner edge of the secondaries. ‘Bill dusky above, reddish beneath; feet grayish blue, tinged with green; iris dusky.’ (Macgillivray.) Length, 228; culmen, 35; wing, 137; tail, 56; tarsus, 33.