498 TOTANUS SOLITARIUS, SOLITARY TATTLER. 



The Yellowsbanlv, so for as known, nests only in high latitudes. The 

 eggs are deposited on the ground, in a little depression, lined with a 

 few dried leaves or grasses. They are three or four in number, narrowly 

 and pointedly i)yriform, measuring from 1.58 by 1.18, to 1.78 by 1.15; 

 the longest eggs not being always also the broadest. The ground is a 

 clean clay-color, sometimes tending more to bulfy or creamy, sometimes 

 rather to light iDrown. The marking is bold and heavy, but presents 

 the customary great diversity, some eggs being very heavily splashed 

 with blotches conlluent about the larger end, while others have smaller 

 clean-edged spots all over the surface. The markings are rich umber- 

 brown, often tending to chocolate, sometimes almost blackish. The 

 paler shell-markings are usually numerous and noticeable. An occa- 

 sional " albino" egg is seen, whitish, with scarcely any markings. All 

 the many eggs examined are from Arctic America. 



TOTANUS SOLITAEIUS, (Wils.) And. 



Solitary Tattler; Wood Tattler. 



Tringa ocliroima var. /3, Lath., IdcI. Orn. ii, 1790, 730. 



Tnvfju soliiaria, WiLS., Am. Oru. vii, 1813, 53, pi. 58, f. 3. 



Totauus solitariiis, AuD., Syn. 1839, 242; B.Am, v, 1842, 309, pi. 343.— GiR., B. L. L 

 1844, 256.— PuTN., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1856, 216.— Tiuppe, Pr. Ess. lust, vi, 1871, 

 119.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438.— Schl., M. P.-B. Scoloj). 1862, p. 73.— Gkay, 

 Ibis, 1870, 292 ; B. West Scotland, 295.— Haiit., Br. Birds, 1872, 137.— Couks, 

 Key, 1872, 259. 



EliyacoiMlus soUtarins, Cass., Baird's B. N. A. 1858. 733. — Whkat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 

 1860, No. 217.— CouES & Pisent., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 416.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 

 174.— BoARDM., Pr. Best. Soc. ix, 1862, 129.— Verr., Pr. Ess. Inst, iii, 1862, 

 153.— Ali.en, ibid. W, 1864, 77.— Coues, ihid. v, 1868, 295.— Coues, Pr. Best. 

 Soc. xii, 1868, 122.— Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 98 (Arizona) ; 1871,32 (North 

 Carolina).— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 32 (May to Sept.).— Dress., Ibis, 1866, .38 

 (Matamoras, summer). — Lawr., Ann. Lye. 1861, 334 (Panama) ; viii, 1866, 294 ; 

 ix, 1868, 141 (Costa Rica).— Dale & BANN.,Tr. Chic. Acad.i. 1869,292 (Alaska).— 

 AiXEN, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 182 (Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming;).— Trippf, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. XV, 1872, 241 (lowa).-MAYN., Guide, 1870, 141 ; Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 1871 (New Hampshire, breeding). — Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 10 (Kansas, rare). — 

 Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 466 (Wyoming). 



Totaniis chlorojms var. solitarius, Ridgw., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 384- 



Toiannn Moropiiffms, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist Nat. vi, 1816. 401. — Bp., Obs. Wils. 

 1825, No. 210 ; Syn. 1828, 325 ; List, 1838, 51.— Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831. 

 393.— Wagl., Isis, 1831, 521.— Nutt., Man. ii, 1834, 159.— Aud., Orn. Biog. iii, 

 1835, 576 ; v, 583 ; pi. 289. 



FJiyacophiluti chJoropygins, Bp., Comptes Rendus, 1856. 



Totunua glareoJa, Ord, ed. Wils. vii, 1825, 57. 



Toianus macroptcra, Spix, Av. Bras, ii, 1825, 76, 92. 



" (?) Toiaiuis caligatiis, Light." (Gray.) 



"■ Totauus gntiai}(s,l\AAGv:.R." {Graif.) 



Additional qiiotatiom.—C\Ti., J.' f. O. iv, 352 (Cuba).— SCL., P. Z. S. 1861, 80 



(Jamaica).— NE^VT., Ibis, i, 1859, 257 (Santa Cruz).— Suxd., Ofv. Vet. Ak. 1869, 587 



(Saint Bartholomew).— Sol., P. Z. S. 1856, 310 (Cordova) ; 1860, 2.54 (Orizaba); 1864, 



178 (city of Mexico); 1867, 592 (Mexiaua).— Scl., P. Z. S. 1858, 461 (Ecuador).— Sci,., 



Ibis, i, 1859, 229 (Guatemala).— Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, 199 (Eastern Peru); 1867, 



979; 1868, 169 (Venezuela); 1869, 598 (Peru); 1872, 309 (Peru).— Pelz., Orn. Bras. 309. 



Hab. — Western Hemisphere. Accidental in Europe. North to Alaska. Breeds iu 

 Northern Ijnited States and northward, if not also throughout most of its United 

 States range. Abuudaut. Migratory. Winters chielly or altogether beyond our 

 limits, in Mexico, Central and South America, and West Indies. 



Licuictiaut JVarren^s Exindition. — 4866, Omaha ; 5437, Fort Union ; 6992-4, Upper 

 Missouri. 



Later Expeditions. — 60370-3, 60773, Camp Raynolds and Fort Fetterman, Wyoming. 



Not obtained by Captain Raynolds' Expedition. 



In most of the United States this is a bird of passage, chiefly observed 

 in the spring aud fall, but I am satisfied that it breeds, iu suitable 



