GREATER YELLOWLEGS 



Sexes alike. Adults in summer. Brownish 

 gray above, the crown and hindneck streaked 

 and the back spotted and barred, with dusky, 

 wings dusky with a very large white area on the 

 quills, upper tail coverts white, tail light brown- 

 ish gray; below white, spotted and barred with 

 dusky except on abdomen. 



Adults in winter. The brownish gray of the 

 upper parts unstreaked, otherwise as in summer- 



Bill blackish, rather long and straight; legs 

 and feet gray. 



Migratory. A large and often stupidly tame 

 species, occurring both about inland waters and 

 on the coasts; now greatly reduced in numbers. 

 Conspicuous from the large white areas on the 

 wings and from its loud, whistled notes. Re- 

 corded by Hallinan from the mouth of the Juan 

 Diaz River in October. 



4. Totanus melanoleucus (Gmelin) 

 Greater Yellowlegs 



Neoglottis melanoleuca RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. 

 Amer., VIII, p. 330, 1919. 



Sexes alike. Length 355 mm. (14.00 in.); 

 tail, 77 mm. (3.00 in.). Upper parts dark ashy 

 gray streaked and spotted with white; upper 

 tail coverts white; tail white or ashy barred 

 with black; under parts white, the breast 

 spotted and the sides barred with blackish. 



Adults in winter and Young. Similar but 

 upper parts more ashy and marking on under 

 parts less distinct. 



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