132 
10457 
4860 
5435 
5760 
5759 
6625 
6628 
4178 
6627 
6631 
6623 
6626 
6624 
6629 
6630 
4401 
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| Mohave river, Cal 
U. Ss. PP. RoR. 
Locality. 
Cape May, N. J 
St. Joseph’s, Mo 
Fort Berthold, Neb 
Platte river, Neb 
Laramie river, Neb 
Eagle Pass, Texas -....-- 
San Elizario, Texas ------ 
Brazos Santiago, Texas --- 
San Diego, Cal 
Suisun valley, Cal....---- 
iPresidiom@ales= aces see 
Shoalwater bay, W. T ---- 
Bitter Root river, W. T--- 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T---- 
Puget’s Sound..--...---- 
EXP. 
AND SURVEYS—-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of 
When collected. 
Oct. 
Mar. 19,1844 
April 20, 1841 
May —, 1842 
26, 1840 
specimens. 
Whence obtained. 
| John K. Townsend... 
Lieut. Warren 
Captain Van Vliet -.- 
Lieut. Whipple 
Lieut. Trowbridge ._. 
Lieut. Williamson ~~~ 
Soetaete do®s-scscas soo 
Gov. Stevens-.-.-..- 
bmi! do-peseceeeoee 
SRO GOR doys-eseekee= 
Dr: (Suckley=--5--=- 
Collected by— 
Dr. Cooper 
Dr. Suckley 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings, 
GAMBETTA FLAVIPES, (Gm.) Bon. 
Yellow Legs. 
Scolopacx flavipes, Guexin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 659.—Witson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 55; pl. lviii. 
Totanus flavipes, Virittor, Nouv. Dict. VI, 1816, 400.—Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 390.—Aup. Orn. Biog. III, 1835, 
573: V, 586; pl. 228.—In. Syn. 243.—In. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 313; pl. 344. 
Gambetta flavipes, Bon. Comptes Rendus, Sept. 1856. 
Totanus fuscocapillus, Vizitt. Nouv. Dict. VI, 1816, 400. 
Totanus natator, Vix1tL. Nouv. Dict. VI, 1816, 409. 
Sp. Cu.—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 ashy 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. 
Young. Entire upper plumage tinged with reddish brown, neck before with lines much less distinct and pale ashy. 
Total length about 10 to 104 inches; wing, 6 to 64; tail 
Hab.—Eastern North America; western? 
o1 
» 25 
bill, 13; tarsus, 2 inches. 
One of the most abundant of the species of this group on the Atlantic slope of the United 
States. 
Mexico and the states of Central America, 
We have never seen this bird from South America, though numerous in the winter in 
It is very similar to the preceding, though smaller. 
