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1 10. Tringa flavipes (Gmelin). 

 Summer Yellowlegs. 



Very much more common than the preceding species. Large numbers 

 pass a few days in the fresh-water marshes, and sometimes about the 

 mangroves, in September, and again in February and March — Gundlach 

 says April, but they really appear earlier. 



III. Tringa solitaria solitaria Wilson. 

 Solitary Sandpiper. 



Passes through Cuba in pairs or trios — not in flocks — from late 

 August to mid October. Gundlach does not mention its re-appearance in 

 the spring, but Zappey shot one on the Isle of Pines, May 11, 1904. 



112. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus (Gmelin). 



WiLLET. 



I know that the Willet breeds in the Bahamas, and Gundlach surmised 

 that it might do so in Cuba. He saw birds in June and July about La 

 Caimanera in Guantanamo Bay, and had seen them elsewhere at almost 

 all times. I have seen but a few Willet in Cuba, on the west coast salinas, 

 those shallow, marly salt-ponds near the west shore of the Bay of Cochinos. 



113. Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). 

 Upland Plover. 



Years ago the Upland Plover appeared in the cultivated fields of 

 Cuba and followed close at the ploughman's heels. They usually came in 



