TOTANUS FLAVIPES, 



(YELLOWSHANKS.) 



Tellowshanks, Lath. Gen. Synops. iii. pt. 1, p. 152 (1785). 



Scolopax flavipes, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 659 (1788). 



Chorlito pardo mayor, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 314 (1803). 



Totcmus natator, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. vi. p. 409 (1816). 



Totanus flavipes (Gmel.), Vieill. torn. cit. p. 410 (1816). 



Totanus fuscocapillus, Vieill. torn. cit. p. 400 (1816). 



Totanus stagnatilis (nee Bechst.), Gay, Faun. Chil., Zool. i. p. 422 (1847). 



Gambetta flavipes (Gmel.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 597 (1856). 



" Totanus leucopyga, Ulig.," Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 45. no. 10274 (1871). 



Totanus {Gambetta) flavipes, Gmel., Gray, torn. cit. p. 45. no. 10274 (1871). 



JEgialodes flavipes (Grnel.), Heine & Reichenovv, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 327 (1890). 



Figures notabiles. 



Wils. Am. Orn. pi. lviii. fig. 5 ; Audub. B. Am. 8vo ed. pi. cccxliv. ; Reichenb. Grail, 

 tab. lxxv. fig. 582. 



Ad. ptil. cest. pileo, nucha et collo postico nigro-fuscis, albo striatis: corpore supra nigro-fusco, albido et 

 cinereo-cervino notato : supracaudalibus albis, nigro transfasciatis : remigibus nigro-fuscis, scapis fuscis 

 extima excepta: rectricibus medianis saturate ciuereis nigricante transfasciatis, reliquis albis nigro- 

 fasciatis : capitis lateribus, gula, gutture et pectore albis nigro-fusco striatis, his magis eodem 

 colore guttatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo, hypochondriis nigro-fasciatis : rostro viridi-nigro : pedibus 

 flavis: iride fusca. 



Ad. ptil. hiem. supra sordidior, nigro-fuscus vix albo guttatus, supracaudalibus magis albis : mento et gula 

 fere albis : gutture et pectore nigricante striatis et fusco-cinereo lavatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo, 

 hypochondriis indistincte cinereo-fusco notatis. 



Adult in summer (Koshkonong Lake, May 2nd). Crown, nape, and hind neck blackish brown, streaked with 

 white ; upper parts generally blackish brown, rather boldly marked and spotted with white and buffy 

 grey; upper tail-coverts white, barred with blackish ; quills blackish brown, the first primary with the 

 shaft dull white, the remaining quills having dark shafts ; median tail-feathers dark ashy grey, barred 

 with blackish, the remaining rectrices white also barred with blackish ; sides of the head, neck, and 

 breast white streaked with blackish, the lower neck and breast with the streaks broader and larger; rest 

 of the underparts white, the flanks barred with blackish: bill greenish black; legs yellow; iris dark 

 brown. Total length about 10 inches, culmen 1*6, wing 6 - 2, tail 2 - 6, tarsus 2 0. 



Adult in autumn (Washington, September 16th). Upper parts much darker than in the summer, the 

 markings reduced to a few dull whitish spots ; upper tail-coverts less barred, being nearly white ; chin 



