54 NORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
Europe and south to Abyssinia. A. specimen was. taken about 1830 
near Godthaab, Greenland (Reinhard), and there are other Jess cer- 
tain records of its occurrence in that country... 
Green-shank. Gloittis nebularia (Gunn.). 
The green-shank has a very wide range in the Eastern Hemisphere. 
It breeds in Scotland, northern Scandinavia, and east to northern 
Siberia; it migrates along the coasts of both Europe and Asia, even 
to Japan and the Commander Islands; it winters from southern 
Europe and India to southern Africa and Australia. : 
The only record for the United States is that of 'three specimens 
taken by Audubon, May 28,1832, on Sand Key, near Cape Sable, 
Florida. The species has also been recorded as an accidental aps 
to Chile (Schlegel) and Buenos Aires, Argentina (Seebohm). 
Common Red-shank. Totanus totanus (Linn. ys 
The common red-shank is scarcely entitled toa place among North ‘American birds. 
Its claim rests only on the description by Swainson and Richardson of a specimen 
from Hudson Bay which they said existed in the British Museum. 
. The common red-shank is a well-known species of Europe and Asia, where it breeds 
frost Iceland and the Faroe Islands to southern Siberia and Turkestan and south to 
northern Africa. It winters in southern Europe, throughout most of Africa, and in 
‘Asia south to India and the Malay Archipelago. 
Greater Yellow-legs. Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.). 
Breeding range. —Knowledge of. the summer home of the greater . 
yellow-legs i is much lacking i in definiteness.. One of the best known 
facts is that the bird: does not go far north, since it is one of the few 
species of the family not found on the Arctic’ coast, nor even to the 
Arctic Circle. The most northern records are: ‘Near Fort Chimo, 
Ungava (Turner) ; accidental once at Cumberland Sound (Kumlien); 
on the west shore of Hudson Bay to about Cape Eskimo (Preble); 
Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, (Ross) ; and to Kupreanof Island (Osgood), 
Lake Tliamna (Osgood), and St. ‘Paul Island (Seale)—all i in Alaska. 
The southern limit of the breeding range is more difficult to deter- 
mine, since the mere presence of the bird in summer is not sufficient 
proof that it is breeding. Individuals are found during every month 
of the year in the West Indies, Bahamas, Florida, Texas (Sennett), 
and California (Grinnell), but it is not probable: that the species breeds 
in any of these localities. 
Eggs have been taken in British Columbia at Fort George and Fort 
St. James (specimens in United States National Museum), and three sets 
on June 3 and June 13, 1911, in Newfoundland (Arnold). The bird 
probably breeds in British Columbia as far south as Clinton (Rhoads), 
and eastward across Canada, north of about the fiftieth parallel of 
latitude. 
Winter range.—The greater yellow-legs Siniten to. the southern end of 
the mainland of South America. To the north it occurs on both coasts 
and ij in Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to the coast of 
