614 YELLOWSHANK. 
occurrence to the west of the Rocky Mountains. It visits the 
Bermudas, Bahamas, and West Indies generally, as well as the 
mainland of tropical America, wintering as far south as the Chupat 
valley in Patagonia—where Durnford found it common during 
November—and also in Chile. 
According to Messrs. Kennicott, MacFarlane and others, the nest 
is a simple depression scantily lined with dead leaves &c., near the 
edge of a marsh or pool. The eggs are 4 in number, and those 
which I examined in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington were 
creamy-buff, boldly blotched with chocolate-brown and umber: 
measurements 1°65 by rrin. Six examples are figured in Poynt- 
ing’s ‘Eggs of the Limicole.’ The food consists of insects and 
their larvze, small crustaceans, worms &c. ; and in its general habits 
this species resembles other Sandpipers. 
The adult in summer has the crown and nape greyish-white 
streaked with black; mantle ash-brown with ragged blotches of 
black which have a tendency to form regular transverse bars on the 
scapulars and secondaries; upper tail-coverts pure white with dusky 
bars; tail-feathers white, with numerous ash-coloured bands—broadest 
on the central pairs—across both webs ; chin and neck white, the 
latter thickly streaked with wood-brown; under-parts white; axi/aries 
white, darred with ash-brown ; bill black and very slender ; legs and 
feet bright yellow. Length 10°75 in.; wing 6°4 in. In autumn the 
streaks are almost absent from the head, neck and throat. The 
young resemble the adults in winter-plumage, but are more or less 
tinged with pale brown on the upper parts. 
As the immature Redshank, which has pale yellow legs, has several 
times been mistaken for the Yellowshank, it may be pointed out 
that Z. flavipes has a much more slender bill, a. longer tarsus, and 
distinctly barred axillaries. 
On May 13th 1889 Vingoe’s collection was sold at Stevens’ 
auction-rooms, when the specimen of the Yellowshank from 
Marazion obtained the price of £5. 15s. 6¢., and the Solitary Sand- 
piper mentioned on p. 611 went for £14. r4s. 
