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V. S. p. R. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



GAMBETTA FLAVIPES, (Gm.) Bon. 



Yellow Legs. 

 Scolopax Jlavipts, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1783, 659.— Wilso.v, Am. Oru. VIL 1B13, 55 ; pi. Iviii. 

 lotanus flavipts, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 4U0.— Sw. F. B. Am. IL 1831, 3;)0.— Auu. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 



573 : V, 586 ; pi. 228.— Ib. Syn. 243.— In. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 313 ; pi. 344. 

 Gamhetta flavipes, Bon. Comptes Rendua, Sept. 1856. 

 Totanns fuscocapillm, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 400. 

 Tolanus nutaUir, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 409. 

 Sp. Ch. — Bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender, ccmpressed ; wing long, pointed ; tail short ; legs long, lower 

 half of the tibia naked ; toes moderate, slender, margined, the outer and middle united at base ; rump and upper tail coverts 

 white, the latter transversely barred with ashy brown ; other upper parts ashy, many featliers having large arrowheads and 

 irregular spots of brownish black and edged with ashy white ; under parts white, with numerous longitudinal lines on the neck 

 before, and arrowheads on the sides, of dark ashy brown; axillaries and under wing coverts white, with band.i of ashy brown, 

 very indistinct in many specimens, but generally well defined ; quills brownish black ; tail ashy white with transverse bunds of 

 dark brown, middle feathers darker; bill greenish black; legs yellow. 



Yourvj. Entire upper plumage tinged with reddish bruwn, neck before with lines much less diitinct and pale ashy. 

 Total length about U) to lU^ inches; wing, 6 to 6^ ; tail, 2J ; bill, \>t\ tarsus, 2 inches. 

 Uah. — Eastern North America ; western ? 



One of the most aljiuidaut of tlic .species of tliis group on the Atlantic slope of the United 

 States. We have never seen this bird from South America^ though numerous in the winter in 

 Mexico and the states of Central America. It is very similar to the preceding, though smaller. 



