rhyacophilus

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A genus of Scolopacidæ, belonging to the totanine section, having a slender bill little longer than the head and grooved to beyond the middle, legs comparatively short, a moderate basal web between the outer and middle toes, the plumage dark-colored above with small whitish spots, and the tail rounded, fully barred with black and white; the green sandpipers or solitary tattlers. The green sandpiper of Europe, R. ochropus, is the type. The similar American species is R. solitarius, commonly called the solitary sandpiper, abundant about pools and in wet woods and fields throughout the greater part of the United States. It is 8½ inches long and 16 in extent of wings.