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inner \vebs of the latter : under surface white spotted or streaked 

 ■with pale brown on the sides of the face, fore-neck, sides of body, 

 lateral under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts. 

 " Bill black, tinted with bluish orrey at the base ; feet bright 

 yellow, claws brownish black ; iris dark brown/' 



Total length 305mm., culmen 62, ^^ing 188, tail 73, tarsus 02. 



Adult fe male. Similar to the adult male. ^Ving 200 mm. 



The description of the male is taken from an example collected 

 ou the Kamakabra River in 1911. 



Breeds in North America, migrating south in winter. 



Ranqe in British Guiana. Kamakabra Eiver, Kamurang River, 

 Abary River (McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. South America to the Straits of Magellan, 

 Central America, West India Islands, and Xorth America. 



Habits. Schomburgk says (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 757) that he met 

 with this bird on the sand- and mussel- banks of the coast. 



We quote the following notes from Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri, 

 (2) X. p. 271) : — ^' The Big Yellowshanks [Totanus melanoleucns), 

 known locally as the Pica PloAer. The Pica arrives here ou the 

 coast with the Golden Plover, and leaves at r.bout the same time, 

 but nianv stragglers remain throughout the marshv alluvial islands. 

 They are occasionally met with in the early part of March, though 

 it is by no means certain whether these are returned migrants 

 from the far south or collected groups from our interior 

 savannah.?. They are known to breed high up in the northern 

 latitudes." 



75. Totanus flavipes. 



Yellowshanks. 



Totanus fa vipes (Gmel.), Syst. Xat. i. p. 6o9. 17S9 (" Habitat auc- 

 tutuno in Xoveboraco) ; Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 757, 

 1S4S ; Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. ISU (Bartica Grove, Camacusa) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.«?. xxiv. p. 431, 1>>9(3; Quelch, Timeliri (2) 

 X. p. 272, 1S96 (migration) ; Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 

 p. 41, no. 39S, 1912. 



Adult male. Upper parts greyish brown, the feathers every- 

 where edged or spotted with white ; upper tail-coverts white faintly 

 Inirred with greyish brown; tail greyish brown mottled and barred 

 with white; sides of face and entire under surface wiiite markeil 

 with pale brown on the sides of the face, throat, breast, sides of 

 body, lateral under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts. 

 '' Bill black; feet bright vellow ; iris dark brown.'' 



