120 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS TOTANUS BECHSTEIN. 



Totanus BECHSTEIN, Orn. Taschenb. DeutschL, II, 1803, 282. Type, 

 by tautonymy, Totanus maculatus BECHSTEIN = Scolopax totanus 



LlNN/EUS. 



Totanus melanoleucus (GMELIN). Greater Yellow-legs. [254.] 



Scolopax melanoleuca GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 659. (Chateau 

 Bay, Labrador.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from Lake Iliamna, 

 Alaska, and southern Mackenzie to southern British Columbia, 

 Ungava, Labrador, and Anticosti Island; winters from southern 

 California, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia (casually North Carolina) 

 south to Patagonia; occurs in Bermuda in migration. 



Totanus flavipes (GMELIN). Yellow-legs. [255.] 



Scolopax flavipes GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 659. (New York.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from Kotzebue 

 Sound, Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and southern 

 Ungava to the valley of the Upper Yukon, southern Saskatchewan, 

 and northern Quebec; winters in Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, 

 and casually in Mexico, Florida, and the Bahamas; in migration 

 occurs mainly east of Rocky Mountains (rare in spring on the Atlantic 

 coast) and in the Pribilof Islands, Greenland, and Bermuda; acci- 

 dental in Great Britain. 



GENUS HELODROMAS KAUP. 



Helodromas KAUP, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 144. Type, 

 by monotypy, Tringa ocrophus LINNJEUS. 



Helddromas solitarius (WILSON). 



RANGE. Northern North America, south in winter to southern 

 South America. 



