74 LIMICOL^E: Shore-Birds 



GREATER YELLOW-LEGS 



(254. Totanus melanoleucus) 14 in. 



Upper parts and wings brownish and black, with white edges ; 

 below white, heavily marked on neck with dusky streaks that 

 change to wedges on chest and bars on sides and flanks; tail 

 white. 



Winter: No white edges above; below, neck dusky-streaked, 

 otherwise white. 



Legs yellow. Bill long, straight, slender. 



WESTERN WILLET 



(258a. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus) 15 in. 



Ashy gray above, lighter below, belly white; crown and neck 

 streaked, back spotted, with dusky; chest and sides marked with 

 broad arrow-points of dusky; closed wing shows a white patch on 

 dusky primaries; open wing white, gray and dusky above, white 

 and black below. Bill straight, thick. 



Winter: Wing as in summer; otherwise black markings absent; 

 head and neck brownish- washed. 



WESTERN SOLITARY SANDPIPER 



(256a. Calidris solitarius cinnamomeus) 9 in. 



Upper parts olive-brown; back and wings finely specked with 

 buff (hardly visible in the field); white below, neck and chest 

 with narrow streaks of dark brown. Wings appear conspicuously 

 black, contrasted with under parts. 



The nesting-habit of this bird is remarkable, as it breeds in 

 deserted nests of other birds, in trees. 



WANDERING TATTLER 



(259. Heteroscelus incanus) 11 in. 



Slaty above; throat white; white below, marked on neck with 

 slaty streaks that become fine wavy bars on breast, sides, and 

 belly; a white line over eye. 



Winter: Upper parts grayer; marks of under parts replaced 

 by grayish wash. 



At a distance appears wholly blackish. 



Resembles Spotted Sandpiper in attitude and shape, and 

 tipping habit, but much larger and more sedate in action. 



