364 



TOTANIJS. 



Buckley in Ecuador, and several collected by Whitely in Central Peru. Mr. Berkeley James 

 procured it on the confines of Peru and Chili (Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 404), and 

 I have several examples collected by Read at Santiago. On the east coast it occurs as far 

 south as Buenos Ayres ; I have an example from Colonia procured by Capt. Harrison, who 

 states that it was very abundant. 



TOTANUS FLAVIPES. 



YELLOW-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 



Diagnosis. Totanus dorso postico et interscapulio fer^ concoloribus : supracaudalibus pro majore parte albis 

 axillaribua albis parcfe brunneo notatis : magnitudine medi4 (alae 150 ad 175 millim.). 



Variations. EASTERN and Western examples appear to be identical. 



S3nonymy. Scolopax flavipes, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 659 (1788). 



Totanus natator, -^ 



Totanus fuscocapillus, V Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. pp. 400, 409, 410 (1816). 

 Totanus flavipes {Gmel.),) 



Gambetta flavipes {Gmel), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 

 Totanus leucopyga, Illiger,fide Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 645 (1877). 



literature. Plates. — Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 58. fig. 4 ; Audubon, Birds Am. v. pi. 344. 



Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 273. 

 Eggs. — Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 32. fig. 8. 



Specific 

 characters. 



The Yellow-legged Sandpiper or Yellowshank is one of four species of Totanus which 

 have the loiver bade nearly the same colour as the mantle, but the predominant colour of the 

 upper tail-coverts is white. Erora T. ochropus it is easily distinguished by the colour of its 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are white, spariiigly marked with brown instead of 

 brown narrowly barred with white. Erom its two nearest allies it scarcely differs except 

 in size. 



Wing. Culmen. Tarsus. 



T. melanoleucus .... 7'4 to 8-0 20 to 2*4 2-3 to 27 



T. flavipes 6-1 to 6-7 1-3 to 1-6 2-0 to 2-2 



T.fflareola 4-5 to 5-1 TO to 12 1-3 to 1-6 



