50 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



255. Totanus flavipes (Gmel.). 



Yellow-legs. 



Migratory ; rather common, much more so than the Great- 

 er Yellow-legs. Woods secured specimens along the Big Lar- 

 amie and Platte rivers in 1857. Williston took a single bird 

 on Lake Como in 1879. Jesurun reports them from Douglas 

 and Bond from Cheyenne. Coues reports them from Bitter 

 Cottonwood creek. La Bonte creek and North Platte river. 

 There are three specimens in the University collection. One 

 was taken at Laramie and the others at Hutton's lakes. 



256. Helodromas solitarius (Wils.). 



Solitary Sandpiper. 

 Quite common during migration and probably there are 

 a few summer residents. I have never seen a nest or eggs, 

 nor very small young ; but the fact that they have been taken 

 during July and August leads me to consider them as residents. 

 Bond reports them as common at Cheyenne. Jesurun as com- 

 mon at Douglas. Wood took a specimen on Pole creek, July 

 *2Q, 1856. Allen observed them in Wyoming in August, 1871. 

 Grinnell observed one in the Upper Geyser Basin, 1875. 

 There is a single skin in the University collection that was 

 taken by Mr. Gilmore on the Little Medicine river, in Carbon 

 county, on Aug. 15, 1897. 



258 a. S3^mphemia semipalmata inornata Brewst. 

 Western Willet. 



Summer resident and rather common about semi-alpine 

 lakes and ponds. Drexel reports this bird from Fort Bridger, 

 1858; McCarthy from Big Sandy river, 1859; Grinnell found 

 them abundant at Yellowstone lake, 1875 ; Williston as quite 

 common at Lake Como for the two weeks following May 2. 

 Bond reports them rather common at Cheyenne and Jesurun 

 the same from Douglas. In the University collection there 

 are three skins. One was taken from a pond near the Cloud's 

 Peak ranch on the Bier Horn mountains at an elevation of 



