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THE YELLOWSHANK. 



ToTANUS FLAViPEs (J. F. Gmelin). 



This is another of those American species which occasionally find 

 their way to this side of the Atlantic. The first British-killed 

 example on record was obtained at Misson in Nottinghamshire, by 

 some wild-fowlers who used to send their birds to Doncaster ; and 

 having thus reached Hugh Reid, the well-known taxidermist, it was 

 next sold to Sir W. M. E. Milner; it forms the subject of the present 

 illustration and is now in the Leeds Museum. A second genuine 

 specimen was shot by E. Vingoe on September 12th 1871, on a 

 salt-marsh near Marazion in Cornwall, as stated by Rodd (Zool. 

 s.s. p. 2807) with ample diagnosis and derails. 



As a straggler the Yellowshank has occurred in Greenland ; but 

 its breeding-grounds are in North America from Hudson Bay to 

 Alaska, extending as far south as Lake Superior, and perhaps to the 

 vicinity of Chicago, where Mr. Nelson found the young barely able 

 to fly on July ist 1874. On passage this species is generally distri- 

 buted throughout the greater part of the United States, and is abun- 

 dant along the valley of the Mississippi, though of comparatively rare 

 occurrence to the west of the Rocky Mountains. It visits the 

 Bermudas, Bahamas, and West Indies generally, as well as the 



