374 CHARADRIIDA. 
The breeding-range of the “ Greater Yellow-legs,” as this Tattler is called in the 
United States, will probably be found more extensive than has been hitherto supposed. 
Mr. Elliot thinks that it may possibly breed in California 1°, as well as in Argentina, 
where 7. melanoleucus from North America spends the winter, departing northward in 
March; a second invasion thereupon takes place from the south, where the species 
is said to come for winter-quarters, after having nested in the extreme south of the 
Neotropical Continent. 
On its southward migration, this bird frequents tidal rivers and natural harbours, 
feeding on the mud-flats, either singly or in small companies, devouring insects, worms, 
and minute crustacea. ‘The eggs are four in number, deposited in a slight depression 
of the ground, sparsely lined with grass, and near the water; they aie greyish- 
white, and spotted with various shades of brown and lilac, covering the surface, the 
markings being most numerous at the larger end. 
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¥2, Totanus flavipes. 
Yellowshanks, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 468°. 
Scolopax flavipes, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 659”. 
Totanus flavipes, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vig. p. 3°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59*; v. Frantz. 
J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377°; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 273°; Salv. 
Ibis, 1889, p. 379"; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p- 578°; Richm. Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 
xvi. p. 526°; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, p. 93°°; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, 
p- 119"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 431; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. 
p. 44. 
Gambetta flavipes, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 893; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 229"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. 
N. Y. vii. p. 834°; ix. pp. 14177, 210%; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 8309"; Bull. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47”; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 887"; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142”; 
Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233”. 
Ptil. hiem. T, melanoleuco similis, sed valde minor. Long. tota circa 9°5, ale 6-0, caude 2:4, culm. 1-55, 
tarsi 1-95, (Descr. maris adulti ex Progreso, Yucatan. Mus. nostr.) 
Piil. est. sicut in 7’, melanoleuco coloratus, sed crassitie valde minore. (Descr. maris adulti ex Momotombo, 
Nicaragua. Mus, nostr.) 
Hab. NortH America generally, breeding in the temperate and subarctic districts 1°. 
—Mexico ** (Deppe & Schiede**), Matamoros (Dresser ?4), Mazatlan (Grayson), 
Zacatecas (fichardson'*), Guanajuato (Dugés**), Chimalpa (Tacubaya), Atoto- 
nilco (Huejotzingo), Ixtapalapa (Tlalpam) (Lerrari-Perez}2), Playa Vicente, 
Vera Cruz (Boucard *), San Mateo, Tehuantepec (Swmichrast °), Progreso, 
N. Yucatan (Schott !®, Gawmer?), Cozumel I., Holbox I. (Gawmer7 12); Guatema.a, 
Duefas (0. S.12!°); Nicaracua, Momotombo (fichardson 12), Rio Escondido ® ; 
Costa Rica (v. Frantzius®), San José (Calleja!", Carmiol 1"), Alajuela, Laguna 
de Cartago (Underwood, in litt.); Panama (M‘Leannan }216)—SoutH Amurica 
generally in winter !*; West Inpims * ; Swan 1.8, 
