Shore-bird Shooting 



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the head whiter, with less dark mottling ; " the feathers of back 

 broadly edged with ashy white. 



Measurements (Averages of seven specimens), length, 14. 20 inches ; 

 wing, 7.65 inches; oilmen, 2.25 inches; tarsus, 2.60 inches. 



Habitat Undetermined ; probably breeds in western British Amer- 

 ica and British Columbia, and passes chiefly through western 

 United States to western South America in winter. Occurs in 

 migration in Lower California, North Dakota, Massachusetts, 

 South Carolina, and Florida. 



This race of the greater yellowlegs has been 

 recently described by Mr. William Brewster 

 (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Harvard College, Vol. XL I, No. i, p. 65) from 

 a series of over twenty birds in winter plumage 

 that were collected in Lower California, by Mr. 

 M. A. Frazar, in the fall of 1887. These birds, a 

 number of which I have seen, thanks to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Brewster, all closely resemble the type, 

 and are much grayer above, with much broader, 

 whitish borders to the feathers, than greater 

 yellowlegs from the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Brewster 

 states that he has seen specimens of the gray 

 yellowlegs from South Carolina and Florida, and 

 refers to this form three young yellowlegs taken 

 by the writer on Monomoy Island, Massachusetts, 

 in September, 1894. In this I thoroughly agree, 

 and identify also with it an adult taken there in 

 September, 1892, and two adults which I collected 

 in North Dakota in the spring of 1895. These 

 birds differ noticeably in the manner described 

 above from typical examples of 7", melanoleucus 



