186 FEATHERED GAME 
is as follows: above, grayish black, the body of 
the feathers dark, with spots and streaks of 
white along their margins; head and neck 
streaked with black lines on a grayish ground. 
Small superciliary stripe of white. Throat 
white. Under parts white, streaked with dusky 
spots and lines on lower throat, neck and breast. 
Sides and flanks barred and having also numer- 
ous arrowheads in black. Under tail coverts 
also black-barred. Tail marked with black and 
white in regular bars, the central feathers 
darker and so less distinctly barred. Rump 
and upper tail coverts white; legs bright yellow 
and very long. Bill black. 
THE ‘‘SUMMER YELLOW-LEGS.’’ 
(Totanus flavipes.) 
The ‘‘Summer’’ is a later arrival in the 
spring and leaves earlier for the south than 
does the ‘‘Winter,’’ flavipes not. going so far 
north and leaving for warm climates during Au- 
gust and September. These, too, are more apt 
to gather into large flocks, while their bigger 
relatives seldom ‘‘bunch up’’ with more than 
five or six in a flock, except, as before stated, 
