YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. 



TOT ANUS FLAVIPES {J. F. Gmelin). 



Scolopax flavipes, J. F. Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 659. 



Totanus flavipes, Yarr. ed. 4^ iv. p. 480 ; Baird, Bretver, and 



Ridgway, Water-Birds of N. Am. i. p. 273 ; Dresser, 



Suppl. p. 377. 



An American straggler to tliis country, of which two 

 unquestioned instances of its occurrence are on 

 record — one near Bawtry on the borders of Lincolnshire, 

 and one near Marazion in Cornwall. In the latter case 

 the bird was shot by Mr. Vingoe on September 12, 

 1871. 



Over the greater part of North America the Yellow- 

 shanked Sandpiper is a well-known bird as a spring and 

 autumn migrant during its passage to its breeding- 

 grounds in the subarctic districts of the Continent. On 

 its return it spreads widely over the West Indian 

 Islands, Central and South America, and reaches as far 

 south as Chili and Patagonia. [O. S.] 



