No. 49. 

 Totanus flavipes. 



Form, colors, and markings practically like No. 48 (the picture 

 of the latter bird will do for both) ; its range also similar. 



Length ten to eleven inches ; extent about twenty inches ; 

 bill one and a half inches. 



YELLOW-LEGS : COMMON YELLOW-LEGS : LESSER YELLOW- 

 SHANKS : YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE: YELLOW-SHANKS PLOVER: 

 YELLOW-LEGGED GODWIT (so termed by J. Sabine, Appendix to 

 Franklin's Journal, 1823) : YELLOW-SHANKS TATTLER : TELL- 

 TALE. 



Compare above names with those beginning list No. 48. 



In Maine at Eastport, Machiasport, Jonesport, Millbridge, 

 and vicinity of Frenchman's Bay, YELLOW-LEG and YELLOW- 

 LEGGED PLOVER (see No. 48) ; and in the vicinity of Henniker, 

 N. H., PLOVER simply. 



At Portland and Pine Point, Me., in Massachusetts at Kow- 

 ley, Ipswich, Salem, North Scituate, Provincetown, North Plym- 

 outh, West Barnstable, and by some at Newport, E. I., SUMMER ; 

 the full name SUMMER YELLOW-LEG being commonly employed 

 at Portsmouth, N. H., and in Massachusetts at Fairhaven, New 

 Bedford, and Falmouth ; often heard at North Scituate, and gen- 

 erally used at Shinnecock Bay, L. I. 



At Plymouth Bay, according to Browne's list. 1876, SMALL 

 CUCU ; at Newport, LITTLE YELLOW-LEG a name by which 

 the bird is widely known throughout the country. 



Though commonly known at Barnegat, N. J., as Little or 

 Small Yellow-leg, the old name Telltale is heard occasionally, 

 and we hear this latter title still more often perhaps at Tucker- 



