CHARADRIIDA, 613 
THE YELLOWSHANK. 
TOTANUS FLAVIPES (J. F. Gmelin). 
This is another.of those American species which occasionally find 
their way to this side of the Atlantic. The first British-killed 
example on record was obtained at Misson in Nottinghamshire, by 
some wild-fowlers who used to send their birds to Doncaster, and 
thus reached Hugh Reid, the well-known taxidermist. It was next 
sold to Sir W. M. E. Milner, who brought it to London in the 
spring of 1855, to be used by Yarrell in his ‘ History of British 
Birds,’ and it forms the subject of the present illustration ; it is now 
in the Leeds Museum. A second genuine specimen was shot by 
E. Vingoe on September 12th 1871, on a salt-marsh near Marazion 
in Cornwall, as stated by Rodd (Zool. ss. p. 2807) with ample 
diagnosis and details. 
As a straggler the Yellowshank has occurred in South Greenland ; 
but its breeding-grounds are in North America from Hudson Bay to 
Alaska, extending as far south as Lake Superior, and perhaps to the 
vicinity of Chicago, where Mr. Nelson found the young barely able 
to fly on July 1st 1874. On passage this species is generally distri- 
buted throughout the greater part of the United States, and is abun- 
dant along the valley of the Mississippi, though of comparatively rare 
