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GENUS TOT ANUS — BECHST 



TATLER. 



[Bill longer than the head, straight, hard, slender; head moderate; neck 

 slender, rather long; body rather long; wings lo:g, pointed; fail short — 

 rounded ; tibia bare, rounded about half its length ; legs long, compressed — 

 toes rather long -hind toe very small — anterior toes connected at the base by 

 webs, ihe inner slightly webbed.] 



TOTANUS FL A VIPES— LATHAM. 



YELLOW-SHANKS TATLER. 



Scolopax flavipes, Wih. Amer. Orn. 



Totanus flavipes, bonap Syn. 



Totanus flavipes, Yellow-shanks Tatier, Sw. & Rich. 



Yellow-shanks. Totanus flavipes, And. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character— Bill along the ridge one inch and three- 

 eighths ; length of tarsi one inch and seven-eighths ; legs yellow. 

 Adult with the bill black : throat white ; upper part of the head, 

 lores, cheeks, hind part and sides of the neck, deep brownish-gray, 

 streaked with grayish-white ; eye encircled with white, a band of 

 the same color from the bill to the eye; fore neck, sides of the 

 body, and upper part of the breast, grayish-white, streaked with 

 grayish-brown ; lower part of the breast and abdomen white ; lower 

 tail coverts white, theouter feathers barred with brown ; scapulars and 

 fore part of the back brown, the feathers barred and spotted with black 

 and white; primaries blackish-brown, the shaft of the outer brown- 

 ish white, whiter toward the tip — the rest dark brown ; secondaries 

 margined with white; hind part of the back brownish-gray ; tail 

 barred with grayish-brown, white at the tip; legs, feet, and toes 

 yellow ; claws black. Length ten inches and three quarters, wing 

 six. Young with the legs greenish — and by those who have not 

 recognized it as the young of the year, I have heard the propriety 

 of its name questioned. 



