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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Sanbpiper, 



JOHf/ 



THE Yellow-legged Sandpiper (Totanus flavipes, Gmelin) is 

 a very rare abnormal autumn migrant to the British Isles, 

 and inhabits the Northern Nearctic Region. The adult in 

 nuptial plumage closely resembles the wood sandpiper in 

 the same stage, but is larger in size, and the former shows 

 less white on the rump in proportion, and there are indica- 

 tions of bars at all ages ; bill, black and slender ; legs and 

 feet, clear yellow. Length, about ten or eleven inches. 



