,60O YELLOWSHANK. 



mainland of tropical America, wintering as far south as the Chupat 

 valley in Patagonia — where Durnford found it common during 

 November — and also in Chili. 



According to Messrs. Kennicott, MacFarlane and others, the nest 

 is a simple depression scantily lined with dead leaves &:c., near the 

 edge of a marsh or pool. The eggs are 4 in number, and those 

 which I examined in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington were 

 creamy-buff, boldly blotched with chocolate-brown and umber : 

 average measurements i"65 by I'l in. The food consists of insects 

 and their larvse, small crustacean?, worms &c. ; and in its general 

 habits this species resembles other Sandpipers. 



The adult in summer has the crown and nape greyish-white 

 streaked with black ; mantle ash-brown with ragged blotches of 

 black which have a tendency to form regular transverse bars on the 

 scapulars and secondaries ; upper tail-coverts pure white with dusky 

 bars; tail-feathers white, with numerous ash-coloured bands — broadest 

 on the central pairs — across both webs ; chin and neck white, the 

 latter thickly streaked with wood-brown ; under parts white; axillaries 

 white, barred with ash-colour ; bill black and very slender ; legs and 

 feet bright yellow. Length 1075 ^^i. ; wing 6 in. In winter the 

 streaks are almost absent from the head, neck and throat; the young 

 resemble the adults in winter, but are more or less tinged with pale 

 brown on the upper parts. 



As the immature Redshank, with pale yellow legs, has several 

 times been mistaken for the Yellowshank, it may be pointed out 

 that T. flavipes has a much more slender bill, a longer tarsus, and 

 distinctly barred axillaries. 



On May 13th 1S89, while this sheet was in the press, the late 

 Mr. A^ingoe's collection was sold at Stevens' auction-rooms, when 

 the specimen of the Yellowshank from Marazion obtained the price 

 of ;^5. i^s. 6d., and the Solitary Sandpiper referred to on p. 597 

 went for ;^i4. 145-. 



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