540 Nichols, Limicoline Voices. [oct! 



they resemble, and which is being replaced in the Turnstone as 

 a flight-note by the characteristic rattle of that species. Simi- 

 larly the Yellow -legs ' yodle has been derived from a plover-like 

 flight-note, and the Greater Yellow-legs and Jack Curlew flight- 

 notes correspond to the Turnstone rattle. 



The flight-note of the Willet seems to correspond rather to those 

 of the Plovers than to those of the Yellow-legs. On the other hand 

 the single "whew" of the Lesser Yellow-legs is evidently homolo- 

 gous with the "whew whew whew" of the Greater, and the flight- 

 notes of the Krieker, etc., may as well correspond to it, or to that 

 of Willet and Plovers. 



Additional Data 1920 



The notes of two Oyster-catchers (Haematopus palliatus), forced 

 to take wing: "crik, crik, crik," etc., once a longer "cle-ar" inter- 

 polated, which suggested flight-calls of Willet and Black-breast 

 Plover (North Carolina, April). 



A Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa), flying towards decoys, gave 

 a single unwhistled note, "hank," likely the flight-note of the 

 species in migration. Alighted, it had a short unloud note, a 

 goose-like "honk," especially when other Shore Birds swung by 

 it (Long Island, August). 



A single Dowitcher on the ground, when a flock of Lesser Yel- 

 lowlegs were flushed a little way off, called a mellow plover-like 

 "cluee?," and when these departed took wing with more ordinary 

 Dowitcher calls and followed after. The peculiar cry [suggested 

 the tarrying individual 's note of the Lesser Yellowlegs, with which 

 it is likely analogous (Long Island, July). 



When a flock of a half dozen Lesser Yellowlegs came to decoys, 

 one bird alighted first, had a low-pitched unfamiliar "too-dle- 

 hoo-hoo, too-dle-hoo-hoo, too-dle-hoo-hoo," before the others, still 

 on the wing, came back and alighted with it. Though probably 

 of similar derivation, this note was quite different from the yodle 

 of the species, and is probably more of a gather call (Long Island, 

 August). 



American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



