212 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



54. Totanus flavipes (Gmelin). Yellow-legs. 



Totanus flavipes Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 195 (I. of Pines, 



March). 

 "Yellow-legs" Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 127 (Santa Barbara). 



Six specimens: El Bobo Lagoon and Siguanea. 



These specimens were collected on March 14 and 15 and April 

 30, flocks of considerable size having been met with on each 

 occasion, frequenting the marshes back of the mangroves. On 

 February 21 and 22 large flocks were observed at Rincon Lagoon, 

 near Bibijagua. According to Prof. Cooke (Bulletin Biological 

 Survey, No. 35, 1910, 56, 57) the species is rare as a winter resident so 

 far north, although known to arrive in the Gulf States as early as 

 March, so that the present record becomes of interest. Mr. Zappey 

 also collected some specimens in ]\Iarch, 1902. All of the birds taken 

 by Mr. Link show prenuptial moult of the body-plumage going on, and 

 practically completed in the one shot April 30. One of the March 

 specimens is renewing the outer primaries, and looks more like a bird 

 just going into winter dress. Mr. Read writes that he has taken 

 specimens of both this and the preceding species in fall shooting. 



55. Tringa solitaria solitaria (Wilson). Solitary Sandpiper. 

 Helodromas solitariiis solitarius Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 905, 196 



(Jucaro). 

 "Solitary Sandpiper" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines, 

 May 3). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 15 

 (I. of Pines, Oct. 27); XXVIII, 191 1, 7 (I. of Pines, Aug. 20), 10 (Nuevas River), 

 114 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125, 127 (Santa Barbara), 131 (I. of Pines). 

 Helodromas solitarius Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 11 (I. of Pines; migr.). 



So far as known the Solitary Sandpiper is only a transient visitant 

 in the Isle of Pines, although it is entirely possible that it may winter 

 occasionally. Mr. Zappey secured a single bird at Jucaro on May 

 II, 1904, and Mr. Read has noted it (in the " West Coast " section) 

 as early as March 25 (1913) and as late as May 18 (1910). Fall 

 migration dates culled from his notes lie between August 20 (1910) 

 and October 27 (1909). 



56. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus (Gmelin). Willet. 

 Totanus semipalmatus Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, 



fide Gundlach). 

 Symphemia semipalmata Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 94 (I. of Pines, in geog. 



distr.). 

 Catoptrophorus semipalmata [sic] semipalmata Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat. XXXIX, 



1905, 196 (I. of Pines, ex Poey). 

 Five specimens: Siguanea. 



