Shore Birds 



254. Greater Yellow-legs {Totanus melanolmms). 

 L. 14; B. 2.2. No msty; upper tail-coverts mostly 

 white; tail barred with black and white or gray. Ads. 

 Above black margined with whitish; below white and 

 black. Yng. Above grayish margined with whitish; 

 below white, breast lightly streaked. IVintsr. Simi- 

 lar but white margins less conspicuous. Notes. A 

 ■whistled v>Hm, whrn-vilieu-wiiiu-iviigu-wheu-wheu, whm- 

 whm. 



RiDge.— North America; breeds from Minnesota, rarely northern 

 Illinois, and Anllcosti northward; winters from Gulf'Statesand CaJl- 

 furnia to soiiihern Scjuth AmKfica. 



255. YellOW-lega {Totanus fiampds). I,. Tn.7; 

 B. 1.4, Similar in color to preceding but smaller in 

 size, 



Range. — North America; breeds raraly in upper Mississippi Valley 

 hutchlefly north of latiiude5s°; winlers from Gulf Slates to southern 

 South America; rare on Pacific coast. 



258. Willet {Symphemta semipalmata). L. 15; 

 W- 8;B. 2. 1. Primaries black with a broad white 

 band; upper tail-coverts mostly white. Ads. Above 

 brownish gray, black, and a little buff; below white 

 heavily marked with black and slightly washed with 

 buff. Yng. Above brownish gray margined with 

 buffy; below white, breast lightly streaked with dusky. 

 fVinter. Similar, but above plain brownish gray. 

 Notes. Song, pillj'-wtU-rmllei , repeated. 



Range. Eastern Norlli Amsrlca; breeds froEii Floilda. lu southern 

 New Jersey, Idler sti'ays casually to Maine; winters from Gulf States 

 to Suulh America. 



258a. Western Willet (5. s. inomatd). Similar to 

 No. z^S but slightly larger. W. 8.5; B. 2.4. In sum- 

 mer above pakr, less heavily marked with black both 

 above and below. Yng. and fVinter. indistinguish- 

 able in color from No. 258. 



Range —Western United Slates; breeds from Texas to Manitoba; 

 ■winters from ;outhern California and Uulf States southward. A rare 

 migrant on Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida. 



259. Wandering Tatler {HsLeructiiis incanus). L. 

 II. Tail-coverts plain slaty gray. Ads. Above plain 

 slaty gray; below white barred with slaty gray. Yng. 

 Above slaty gray more or less margined with whitish; 

 breast and sides slaty gray; throat and belly white. 

 tVinter. Similar, but no white margins above. 



Range. — Pailfic coast; breedj froin British Columbia northward; 

 wlnitrs south to Hawaiian Islands and Galapagos. 



282. Surf Bird (Aphn^a virgaia). L. 10; B. i. 

 Upper tail-coverts and base of tail-feathers white. 

 Ads. Above black, slaty, and rusty. Yn^, Above 

 slaty margined with whitish; breast barred slaty and 

 whitish; belly white snotted with slaty. IVtnUr. The 

 same,but no whitish margins. 

 Rangi^. — "Pacific coast of AmeriiLa, from Alaska to Chill." [A.O. 



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