502 THE BIRDS OF MANITOBA THOMPSON. 



these wide, wet plains, but all those noted have been solitary individ- 

 uals. Their large size, reddish color, and long straight bills distin- 

 guish them at a great distance. 



81. Limosa haemastica. Hudsouiaa Godwit. 



Rare migrant. Winnipeg: Transient visitor; rare (Hiue). Severn 

 House (Murray). 



82. Totanus raelanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. 



Abundant; migrant spring, late summer, and fall; very abundant in 

 August and September at the boundary along Mouse river (Coues). 

 Duiferin : Arrived between April 15 and 20 (Dawson). "Winnipeg: 

 Abundant in summer migration (Hine). l!^orway House (Bell). Port- 

 age la Prairie : Abundant in spring, arriving in April, usually in pairs; 

 about the first of August they reappear in small flocks about the rivers 

 and open prairie sloughs, where they feed on small frogs; depart late in 

 October ; the last flock I saw in 1884 were flying south in a snow storm 

 on 21st of October (Nash). Very abundant at Ked Deer river and ou 

 the Assiniboine; about all ponds in the fall of 1881 (Macoun). Car- 

 berry: Abundant; migrant in spring and in late summer (Thompson). 

 Shell River: 1885, first seen, seven, on April 24, transient visitor; passing 

 north, and not remaining any time or breeding (Calcutt). Qu'Appelle : 

 Common migrant. May 5 (Guernsey). Severn House (Murray). Very 

 common from the sea to Lake Winnipeg at the season (Blakiston). 



August 21, 1884: Greater Yellow-legs are still very common about 

 the weedy lakes. They come down from the north about the 1st of 

 August, and are to be seen usually on the points of land that run out 

 into the ponds; as they stand motionless on the promontories they 

 look twice as large as they really are. They are more shy and less 

 active than their minor brethren, for they usually stand in a dignified 

 way until fired at or forced to fly, seldom running in the sprightly fash- 

 ion of the Lesser Yellow-leg. They differ also in their food, for I have 

 found the larger species with numerous small fish in their gullets, which 

 is unusual for a Tattler. The members of this species raise their voice 

 in a great outcry each time a gun is fired. 



83. Totanus flavipes. Yellow-legs. 



Common migrant all over; abundant throughout the Winnepegosis 

 region ; Nelson River ; chiefly noted in Assiniboine Valley about 

 August 15; common; spring, late summer, and autumn migrant; very 

 abundant in August and September; along the boundary at Turtle 

 Mountain and Mouse River (Coues). Winnipeg: Abundant (Hiue). 

 Portage la Prairie : This species arrives later than the last (Greater 

 Yellow legs), not usually appearing before the 12th of May ; they return 

 about the first of August in flocks, and depart at the end of September, 

 my latest record being October 1st, 1886, a single bird, near the Red River 



