374 CHABADEIID^. 



The breeding-range of the " Greater Yellow-legs," as this Tattler is called in the 

 United States, will probably be found more extensive than has been hitherto supposed. 

 Mr. Elliot thinks that it may possibly breed in California i*', as well as in Argentina, 

 where T. melanoleucus from North America spends the winter, departing northward in 

 March ; a second invasion thereupon takes place from the south, where the species 

 is said to come for winter-quarters, after having nested in the extreme south of the 

 Neotropical Continent. 



On its southward migration, this bird frequents tidal rivers and natural harbours, 

 feeding on the mud-flats, either singly or in small companies, devouring insects, worms, 

 and minute Crustacea. The eggs are four in number, deposited in a slight depression 

 of the ground, sparsely lined with grass, and near the water; they aie greyish- 

 white, and spotted with various shades of brown and lilac, covering the surface, the 

 markings being most numerous at the larger end. 



2. Totanns flavipes. 



YeUowshanks, Pena. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 468 '. 

 Scolopax flavipes, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 659 ^. 

 Totanus flavipes. Licit. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 3 ' ; Cab. J. f. Om. 1863, p. 59 * ; v. Frantz. 



J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377 '; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Ainer. i. p. 273*; Salv. 



Ibis, 1889, p. 379 ' ; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 578 ' ; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



xvi. p. 526'; A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, p. 93"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, 



p. 119"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 431 " ; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. 



p. 44 ". 

 Oambetta flavipes, Scl. P.Z. S. 1859, p. 393"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 229"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. vii. p. 334"; ix. pp. 141 ", 210"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309 " ; Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47 '" ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 38 =" ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 142 " : 



Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233 ". 



PtH. hiem. T. melanoleueo similis, sed valde minor. Long, tota circa 9'5, alae 6-0, caudae 2--t, culm. 1-55, 



tarsi 1'95. (Descr. maris adulti ex Progreso, Yucatan. Mus. nostr.) 

 Piil. cestiv. sicut in T. melanoleueo colorafcus, sed crassitie valde minore. (Descr. maris adulti ex Momotombo, 



Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 



Mab. NoETH Ameeica generally, breeding in the temperate and subarctic districts ^^. 

 — Mexico 2^ {Beppe & Schisde^^), Matamoros {Dresser-^), Mazatlan {Grayson ^^), 

 Zacatecas {Michardson^^), Guanajuato (Duges^^), Chimalpa (Tacubaya), Atoto- 

 nilco (Huejotzingoj, Ixtapalapa (Tlalpam) {Ferrari-Ferez^'^), Playa Vicente, 

 Vera Cruz (Boucard ^*), San Mateo, Tehuantepec [Sumichrast -^), Progreso, 

 N. Yucatan {Schott^^, Gaumer^^), Cozumel I., Holbox I. [Gaumer ' ^-) ; Guatemala, 

 Duenas {0. S. ^^ ^^) ; Nicaeagda, Momotombo (Fichardson ^^), Rio Escondido ^ ; 

 Costa Eica {v. Frantzius^), San Jose (Calleja^^, Carmiol ^''), Alajuela, Laguna 

 de Cartago {Underwood, in litt.) ; Panama {M'Leannan ^^ ^^). — South Amekica 

 generally in winter ^^ ; West Indies ^- ; Swan I. ^. 



