340 CHARADRIIDAL 
near Marazion, in Cornwall, October, 1884 (T. Cornish, 
‘ Zoologist,’ 1882, p. 432, and 1885, p. 118). 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial.— Resembles the adult 
male nuptial plumage of the Green Sandpiper, but the 
rump and middle upper tail-coverts are blackish-brown ; tail 
and lateral upper tail coverts, white, broadly barred with 
black ; oblique white bars on the axillaries, broader than in 
the Green Sandpiper. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Resembles the winter 
plumage of the Green Sandpiper; very few spots on the 
back and wings; head, brownish; front and sides of neck, 
hight brown, sparsely speckled with dark brown. 
Immature, male and female.—Resembles the adult winter 
plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings are 
margined with light reddish-brown; front of neck and 
upper breast, brownish without spots; lower breast and 
abdomen, white. 
Beak. Greenish-black. 
FEET. Greenish-grey. 
Ir1IDES. Brown. 
Kaas. Not definitely known. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH he S86 25am 
WING sen = i: Se Le ase 
BEAK Ate Qe Pee 
TARSO-METATARSUS 1:2 
YELLOWSHANK. Totanus flavipes (J. ¥. Gmelin). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. ix, pl. 715; 
Lilford, ‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 50. 
Another American species of great rarity in Britain. It 
has twice been recorded. One specimen was obtained at 
Misson, in Nottinghamshire, in the winter of 1854-55 
(Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 3rd Kdit., vol. 11., p. 637); it is 
preserved in the Leeds Museum. The second bird was 
