120 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus TOTANUS Bechstein. 



Totanus Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 282. Type, 

 by tautonymy, Totanus maculatus Bechstein = Scolopax totanus 



LiNNjBUS. 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmelin). Greater Yellow-legs. [254.] 



Scolopax melanoleuca Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 659. (Chateau 

 Bay, Labrador.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from Lake Iliamna, 

 Alaska, and southern Mackenzie to southern British Colimibia, 

 Ungava, Labrador, and Anticosti Island; winters from southern 

 California, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia (casually North Carolina) 

 south to Patagonia; occurs in Bermuda in migration. 



Totanus flfivipes (Gmelin). Yellow-legs. [255.] 



Scolopax flavipes Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 659. (New York.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from Kotzebue 

 Sound, Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and southern 

 Ungava to the valley of the Upper Yukon, southern Saskatchewan, 

 and northern Quebec; winters in Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, 

 and casually in Mexico, Florida, and the Bahamas; in migration 

 occurs mainly east of Rocky Mountains (rare in spring on the Atlantic 

 coast) and in the Pribilof Islands, Greenland, and Bermuda; acci- 

 dental in Great Britain. 



Genus HELODROMAS Kaup. 



Helodromas Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 144. Type, 

 by monotypy, Tringa ocrophus Linn^us. 



Helodromas solitSrius (Wilson). 



Range. — Northern North America, south in winter to southern 

 South America. 



