186 FEATHERED GAME 



is as follows : above, grayish black, the body of 

 the feathers dark, with spots and streaks of 

 white along their margins; head and neck 

 streaked with black lines on a grayish ground. 

 Small superciliary stripe of white. Throat 

 white. Under parts white, streaked with dusky 

 spots and lines on lower throat, neck and breast. 

 Sides and flanks barred and having also numer- 

 ous arrowheads in black. Under tail coverts 

 also black-barred. Tail marked with black and 

 white in regular bars, the central feathers 

 darker and so less distinctly barred. Rump 

 and upper tail coverts white ; legs bright yellow 

 and very long. Bill black. 



THE ''SUMMER YELLOW-LEGS." 



(Totanus flavipes.) 



The "Summer" is a later arrival in the 

 spring and leaves earlier for the south than 

 does the "Winter," favipes not going so far 

 north and leaving for warm climates during Au- 

 gust and September. These, too, are more apt 

 to gather into large flocks, while their bigger 

 relatives seldom "bunch up" with more than 

 five or six in a flock, except, as before stated. 



