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GENUS TOTANUS — BECHST. 



TATLER. 



[Bill longer than ihc head, straight, hard, slender; head moderate; neck 

 slender, rather long ; body rather long ; wings \o\g, jiointcd ; tail shoil — 

 rounded ; liliia bare, rounded about half its length ; legs long, cotT;[iressed — 

 toes rather lon<T — hind toe very small — anterior toes connected at the base by 

 webs, the inner slightly webbed.] 



TOTANUS FLAVIPES— LATHAM. 



YELLOW-SHANKS TATLER. 



Scolopax flavipcs, Wih. Amer. Orn. 



Totanus flavipes, Bonap Syn. 



Totanus flavipes, Yellow-shanks Tatior, Sw. & Rich. 



Yellow-shanks, Totanus flavipes. And. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character —Bil] along the ridge one inch and three- 

 eighths ; length of tarsi one inch and seven-eighths ; legs yellow. 

 Adult with the bill black : throat white ; upper part of the head, 

 lores, cheeks, hind part and sides of the neck, deep brownish-gray, 

 streaked with grayish-white ; eye encircled with white, a band of 

 the same color from the bill to the eye ; fore neck, sides of the 

 body, and upper part of the breast, grayish-white, streaked with 

 grayish-brown ; lower part of the breast and abdomen white; lower 

 tail coverts white, the outer feathers barred with brown ; scapulars and 

 fore part of the back brown, the feathers barred and spotted with black 

 and white; primaries blackish-brown, the shaft of the outer brown- 

 ish white, whiter toward the tip — the rest dark brown ; secondaries 

 margined with white; hind part of the back brownish-gray ; tail 

 barred with grayish-brown, white at the tip ; legs, feet, and toes 

 yellow; claws black. Length ten inches and three quarters, wino" 

 six. Young with the legs greenish — and by those who have not 

 recognized it as the young of the year, I have heard the propriety 

 of its name questioned. 



