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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



Catal. 

 No. 



20] 

 1301 



301 

 1045" 

 4860 

 5435 

 5760 

 5759 

 6625 

 6628 

 4178 

 6627 

 6631 

 6623 

 6626 

 6624 

 6629 

 6630 

 4401 



Sex. 



3 



9 

 3 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pa 



do 



do 



Cape May, N. J 



St. Joseph's, Mo 



Fort Berthold, Neb 



Platte river. Neb 



Liiramie river. Neb 



Eagle Pass, Texas 



San Elizario, Texas 



Brazos Santiago, Texas . 



Mohave river, Cal 



San Diego, Cal 



Siiisun valley, Cal 



Presidio, Cal 



Shoalwater bay, W. T .. 

 Bitter Root river, W. T. 

 Fort Steilacoom, W. T.. 

 Puget's Sound 



When collected 



Whence obtained. 



Oct. 26,1840 

 Mar. 19,1844 

 April 20, 1841 

 May —,1842 



S. F. Baird 



, do 



do 



John K. Townsend- 

 Lieut. Warren 



.do. 



Lieut. Bryan 



do 



Miij or Emory 



do 



Captain ">'an Vliet . 



Lieut. Whipple 



Lieut. Trowbridge . 

 Lieut. Williamson . 

 do 



Gov, Stevens. 

 do 



do 



Dr. Suckley . 



Collected by — • 



Dr. Hayden 



W. S. Wood . 



A. Schott . 



Kenn. &Mon. 



Dr. Heermann 

 do , 



Dr. Cooper . 

 Dr. Suckley . 

 do 



Length. Stretch 



of wings. 



13.75 

 14.00 



25.00 



GAMBETTA FLAVIPES, (Gm.) Bon. 



Yellow Legs. 

 Scolopax fiavipis, Gmf.lin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 659.— Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, .55; pi. Iviii. 

 lolanus flavipts, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 400.— Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 390.— Ahd. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 



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

 Gambdla fiavipes, Bon. Comptes Kendus, Sept. 1856. 

 Totama fwcocapillns, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816; 400. 

 Totamu natator, ViilIll. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 409. 

 Sp. Ch — Bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender, compressed; 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 asliy brown ; other upper parts ashy, many feathers 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 bands of ashy brown, 

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

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



Tounj. Entire upper plumage tinged with reddish brown, neck before with lines much less distinct and pale ashy. 

 Total length about 10 to lU^ inches ; wing, 6 to 6i ; tail, 2\ ; bill, 1|J ; tarBU8,2 inches. 

 Ilah. — Eastern North America; western? 



One of the most abundant of the species of this 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, tholigh smaller. 



