76 THE GAME BIRDS 
the flats by the receding tide, and they wade 
about in the shallow water, following its edge 
as it recedes and advances, continually keep- 
ing up a bobbing motion, as if they kept up 
the motion so as to strike more quickly when 
occasion served. 
88. YELLOW-LEGS. 
LESSER YELLOW-LEGS. 
Totanus flavipes. 
A miniature counterpart of No. 87 so far 
as all practicak purposes go. Length 11 inches; 
extent 20 inches; bill 1} inches and straight ; 
the legs are longer in proportion to its size 
than im..No.-37. dt. is-iound in “thessame 
localities as its larger prototype, and resem- 
bles it in habits. In New England, however, 
itis known as Summer Yellow-legs, since it 
arrives from the North about the middle of 
July, and leaves for the South as early as 
September 15. It is, in autumn, a fat, fairly 
flavored bird, but is so easily captured that 
one soon tires of shooting them. ‘They will 
come again and again to the blind, where 
lie outstretched a number of their fellows, 
who have just fallen, and do not seem to 
mind the showers of lead which are poured 
into their midst. 
I have often wondered where they passed 
in their spring migration northward, as we 
seldom see them at that time upon the New 
