THE GREATER YELLOW-LEGS. 667 



General Range. — Xorth America, breeding in the interior (from Iowa and 

 Nebraska northward to Manitoba and the Sasl<atchewan). Migrating in winter 

 to Guatemala, Yucatan, etc., and Cuba. 



Range in Washington. — Rare migrant along the coast. Xo recent records. 

 Authorities. — Newberrv, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. \J.. Pt. 1\'., 1837, p. I09. 

 T. C.\:S. 



Specimens. — Prov. C. 



"THE Mar1:)led Gudwit frequents Shoalwater bay in immense flocks dur- 

 ing spring and fall, a few remaining all winter. The first flocks of young- 

 birds arri\e from the north in July, but I think none breed in the Territory. 

 They frequent during their stay, soft mud flats, which are extensive in the 

 ba\-, feeding at low tide during either day or night. At high water they sit 

 concealed by the grass, always at a distance from woods or other concealment 

 of their enemies, and are consequently very difficult to approach, being watch- 

 ful and shy at all times. Along the gravelly steep shores of the upper part of 

 Pnget Sound the}- rarely appear. In the beginning of JMay they leave for their 

 northeri-i breeding grounds. I liave examined large nunibers, and have never 

 identified n-iore than one species in the Territor\-. The name of 'curlew' is 

 commonly but \\rong-ly given theni." 



The foregoing paragraph, penned 1)\- Dr. Cooper more than fifty years 

 ago, fairly sun-imarizes our present knowledge of the Marbled Godwit ii-i 

 Washington. They are presumably still common along the Pacific coast dur- 

 ing migrations, for Mr. A. W. Anthony finds them so along the Oregon coast. 

 The bird does not go far north, fc-)r it is unknow-n in Alaska. John Fannin 

 notes its occurrence thruout the whole of British Columbia, I)ut sa\'s that it 

 breeds chiefly east of the Cascades. There is no reason win- it should not lie 

 found likewise in eastern ^^'ashington, since it is kn<iwn to breed as far south 

 as Nebraska. 



No. 269. 



GREATER YELLOW-LEGS. 



A. O. U. No. 254. Totaniis melanoleucus (Gniel.). 



Synonyms. — Long-lkgged Tattlhr. Stone Snipk. 



Description. — Adult in suuuncv: Above dusky or blackish grav ; streaked 

 on the head and neck, and spotted on the edges of feathers of back, scapulars, etc., 

 with white ; edge of wing, and quills plain duskv : the upper tail-coverts white, 

 narrowly barred on tern-iii-ial portions with dusky : tail narrowly barred duskv 

 and white, the central feathers darker; underparts white, the fore-neck and lireast 

 heavily spotted and streaked, and the sides barred with dusky : "bill straight or 

 slightly inclined upward, not with regular curve, but as if bent near the niiddle, 

 black or gt ^nish black"; feet and legs bright yellow. Adult in winter: Upper- 



