THE YELLOW-LEGS. 521 
Recognition Marks.—Killdeer size; like preceding species but smaller. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Eggs, 3-4, “buffy (variable as to shade), 
distinctly (sometimes broadly) spotted or blotched with dark madder or Vandyke 
brown and purplish gray.”’ Av. size, 1.69 x 1.15 (42.9 x 29.2) (Ridgw.). 
General Range.—America in general, breeding in the cold temperate and 
subarctic districts, and migrating south in winter to southern South America. Less 
common in western than in eastern North America. 
Range in Ohio.—‘“Very common spring and fall migrant’? (Wheaton). 
Taken im Massachusetts. Photo by Lynds Jones. 
SHORE BIRDS GALORE. 
THIS smaller representative of the genus Totanus is even more gen- 
erally distributed, 1f possible, than its larger brother, 7. melanoleucus. Dur- 
ing the spring migrations it spreads over the state and rests wherever there 
is flooded land. Altho not solitary by preference, the birds are rather inde- 
pendent, and I have seen single individuals, or twos and threes, quite as often 
as larger flocks. These little Tattlers mingle freely with other species, and 
especially with their larger congeners, the Greater Yellow-legs, and with the 
closely related Solitary Sandpiper. When frightened from their feeding 
haunts, however, the Yellow-legs draw off by themselves, and pursue a course 
to other pastures, without reference to their recent associates. 
