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SHOKE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



TOTANUS FLAV1PES (Gmel.). 

 Yellow-legs. Summer Yellow-legs. 



Upper parts, grayish brown, mottled with whitish 

 oil the back; chiu, white; throat, white, streaked with 

 pale grayish brown ; breast, mottled ; belly, white; tail 

 feathers, banded brown and white ; upper tail coverts, 

 white, more or less barred with black; bill, black; 

 legs, yellow. Resembles the Greater Yellow-legs, 

 but is smaller. Axillars, white, barred with brown. 



Length, 10.80; wing, 6.45; tarsus, 2.10; bill, 1.45. 



Ranges from the sub-arctic regions south- 

 ward to South America. The Summer Yel- 

 low-legs resembles the preceding species, 

 but is smaller, and is usually much more tame and unsuspicious than the 

 Winter Yellow- legs, and comes to decoys more readily. It is very common 

 on the Atlantic coast during the migrations. The note is similar, though per- 

 haps not so sharp and loud. It breeds in the interior, from Minnesota and 

 Illinois northward. The eggs are pale buff, dotted and blotched with dark 

 brown and chocolate brown. 



The Gree n -.shank, Totanas nebulariits (Gunn.), a European species, was 

 taken by Audubon, near Cape Sable, Florida, in 1882. It somewhat resembles 

 the Yellow-leg, but has the rump and lower back, white, and the legs, greenish. 



Tolaiuis llavipes. 



