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TOTANUS MELANOLEUCUS (G'/m-/.). 

 Greater Yellow=legs. Winter Yellow=legs. 



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Aiiiilt ill siiiiiniiT : \\\\\ nearly straiylit; upper pluniaj;f mottled with white and black ; throat 

 white streaked with black: chin whitish: breast white heavily streaked with l)lack; rest of 

 under parts white irregularly marked with ])lack: middle of belly nearly always pure white: bill 

 black and legs yellow. 



jldiilt in zuinicr : Top of the head and neck streaked white and dark brown; back brown, 

 the feathers narrowly edged with whitish: chin white; breast white, narrowly lined with dark 

 brown; rest of under parts white; bill black and legs yellow. 



Length, 14.50; Wing, 7. So; Tarsus, 2.50; Bill, 2.30. 



Common ill Eastern North America from the ^Vrctic region soiitliw arcl to 

 South America. It is abundant on the Athmtic coast din-ino- miorations : 

 common in Florida in winter. 



The eggs are pale huffy brown spotted with dark brow n. 



TOTANUS FLA VI PES (Gw</.) 

 Summer Yellow=legs. 



LTpper parts grayish brown mottled with whitish 

 on the back ; chin white ; throat white streaked with 

 pale grayish brown; breast mottled, belly white; tail 

 feathers banded brown and white: bill black; legs 

 yellow. 



Length. lo.cSo; Wing. 6.45 : Tarsus. 2.10: Hill. 1.45. 



Ranijes from the sub-Arctic regions 

 southward to South America. Ureeds in 

 the interior from Minnesota and Illinois 

 northward. The eggs are pale buff dotted 

 and blotched with dark brown and chocolate brown. This is a well-known 



