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is grayer, and the under parts are less spotted. (Greater Tell- 

 tale; Long-legged Tattler.) 



Length, 12-15; wing, 8 (7^-8i); tail, 3]; tarsus, 2f; culmen, 2-2^. 

 America ; breeding from Iowa northward, and wintering from the Gulf 

 States to Patagonia. 



20. Yellow-legs 

 (255. Tdtanus Jld- 

 vipes). — A bird 

 similar in habits and 

 appearance to the 

 last, but appreciably 

 smaller, though the 

 legs are proportion- 

 ately longer. Both of 

 these species occur 



wherever there is Greater Yellow-legs 



water, and during migrations are abundant, though more com- 

 mon on coasts than along rivers. This is usually more abundant 

 than No. 19, and more easily decoyed by the hunter ; it is espe- 

 cially plentiful in the late summer and autumn during its south- 

 ward migration. The notes of both this species and the last 

 are a clear, whistling, wheu-wheu-wheu. (Summer Yellow-legs; 



Lesser Telltale.) 



Length, 10-12 ; wing, 

 G\ (6-7) ; tail, 2h ; tar- 

 sus, 2; culmen, 1|-1|. 

 America ; breeding north 

 of the United States, and 

 wintering from the Gulf 

 States to Patagonia. In 

 the United States more 

 common east than west. 



21. Solitary Sand- 

 piper (256. Tdtcuius 

 Solitary Sandpiper solihh'ius). — A com- 



mon, small, dark, olive-broA^m-backed, white-bellied sandpiper, 

 with the neck and back spotted with white. The throat 



