120 Birds of Colorado 
It passes through Colorado at the end of April, and has been noticed 
at Loveland, April 20th and May Ist, by W. G. Smith. It also ranges 
into the mountains, since Carter observed it at Breckenridge. The only 
other definite records are: San Luis Lakes, where a single example 
was taken by Aiken, October Ist, 1874 (Henshaw), and Barr, where 
it has been noticed at various dates in May and July by Hersey and 
Rockwell. 
Genus TOTANUS. 
Bill long and slender and straight or nearly so, longer than the 
head, but the culmen shorter than the tarsus; the lateral grooves 
on, the bill only extending for half its length; tail short, nearly even 
and barred ; legs long, tibia nearly half their length; tarsus, which far 
exceeds the middle toe and claw, scutellated before and behind ; hind 
toe present; web between the middle and outer toe fairly well 
developed, between middle and inner toe almost obsolete. 
This genus, as restricted, contains four or five species breeding in 
the northern parts of the Old and New Worlds. The two North 
American species commonly met with both occur in Colorado. 
Key oF THE SPECIES. 
A. Larger; wing 7 to 8. T. melanoleucus, p. 120. 
B. Smaller; wing 6 to 7. T. flavipes, p. 121. 
Greater Yellow-legs. T'otanus melanoleucus. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 254—Colorado Records—Allen 72, pp. 152, 159 ; 
Tresz 81, p. 244; Drew 85, p. 18; Morrison 89, p. 168; Cooke 97, 
pp. 18, 66, 200; Henderson 03, p. 234; 09, p. 228; Rockwell 08, 
p. 159; Felger 09, p. 289. 
Description.— Adult in summer—Above ashy-grey and dusky black, 
mottled with white, rather more streakily marked on the head ; upper 
tail-coverts white, sometimes with a few narrow bars of dusky, tail ashy 
to white barred with dusky ; primaries plain dusky black, the shaft 
of the outer one white ; below white streaked about the fore-neck and 
breast, barred on the sides and flanks with dusky; iris and bill 
brown, legs chrome-yellow. Length 13; wing 7-75; tail 2-75; 
culmen 2-20; tarsus 2-60. 
The sexes are alike. In winter the birds are dark ashy-grey without 
black above and more white below, with fine ashy-grey streaks on 
the throat and upper-breast only. 
Distribution.—Breeding apparently from Anticosti to British Columbia 
and south in the Missouri Valley to Iowa, but breeding records are very 
