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specimen taken about equally far inland, at Dedham, Massachusetts, " by G. 

 E. Browne and now in his collection. " ^ The species is a not uncommon — 

 if somewhat irregular — migratory visitor, in summer and autumn, to the more 

 extensive salt marshes along our coast, especially those at Ipswich and near the 

 extreme end of Cape Cod. It is seldom noted anywhere in New England in 

 spring, and is believed to return to its breeding grounds at the North chiefly 

 through the interior of the United States. 



67. Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.). 

 Greater Yellow-legs. Winter Yellow-leg. 



Common transient visitor in spring and autumn, 



seasonal OCCURREN'CE. 



March 30, 1870, six seen (Newtonville), C. J. Maynard. 



April 20 — May 20. 

 May 29, 1899, one seen (Concord), W. Brewster. 



August I — October 20. 

 November 4, 1897, one seen (Concord), W. Brewster. 



Nuttall, writing in 1834, characterized^ the Greater Yellow-legs as "so 

 uncommon" in Massachusetts "that it may be considered almost as a straggler" 

 which then, as he believed, confined its visits in autumn " chiefly to the eastern 

 extremity of Cape Cod and Cape Ann," and proceeded northward in spring 

 " principally by an inland route." During the past twenty or thirty years, how- 

 ever, it has been one of the commonest of our larger migratory waders in both 

 spring and autumn, occurring about our inland ponds and marshes almost as 

 frequently as along the seacoast. Mr. W. A. Jeffries tells me that until very 

 recently it has been regularly seen in spring on the flats of the Back Bay Basin, 

 and between 1865 and 1875 I often met with it in autumn at Fresh Pond and 

 the Glacialis where, as I am assured by Mr. O. A. Lothrop, it has been observed 

 repeatedly within the past si.x or eight years. According to Mr. John H. Hardy, 

 Jr., it has been taken at Spy Pond and also at Great Meadow. 



lA. P. Morse, Birds of Wellesley and Vicinity, 1S97, iS. 



^T. Nuttall, Manual ot the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada. The Water Birds, 

 1834, 148, 149. 



