340 CHARADRIIDJE 



near Marazion, in Cornwall, October, 1884 (T. Cornish, 

 'Zoologist,' 1882, p. 432, and 1885, p. 113). 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 



PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial. Resembles the adult 

 male nuptial plumage of the Green Sandpiper, but the 

 rump and middle upper tail-coverts are blackish-brown ; tail 

 and lateral upper tail coverts, white, broadly barred with 

 black ; oblique white bars on the axillaries, broader than in 

 the Green Sandpiper. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage. 



Adult winter, male and female. Resembles the winter 

 plumage of the Green Sandpiper ; very few spots on the 

 back and wings ; head, brownish ; front and sides of neck, 

 light brown, sparsely speckled with dark brown. 



Immature, male and female. Resembles the adult winter 

 plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings are 

 margined with light reddish-brown; front of neck and 

 upper breast, brownish without spots ; lower breast and 

 abdomen, white. 



BEAK. Greenish-black. 



FEET. Greenish-grey. 



IRIDES. Brown. 



EGGS. Not definitely known. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... 8*25 in. 



WING 5-2 



BEAK 1-2 



TARSOMETATARSUS 1*2 



YELLOWSHANK. Totanus flavipes (J. F. Gmelin). 



Coloured Figures. Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. ix, pi. 715; 

 Lilford, ' Coloured Figures,' vol. v, pi. 50. 



Another American species of great rarity in Britain. It 

 has twice been recorded. One specimen was obtained at 

 Misson, in Nottinghamshire, in the winter of 1854-55 

 (Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 3rd Edit., vol. ii., p. 637) ; it is 

 preserved in the Leeds Museum. The second bird was 



