35o 



YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE. 



between Eastern and Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania, arriving 

 there early in May, and departing in September. It is usually 

 silent, unless when suddenly flushed, when it utters a sharp 

 whistle. 



This species has considerable resemblance, both in manners 

 and markings, to the green sandpiper of Europe (Tringa 

 ochropus) ; but differs from that bird in being nearly one-third 

 less, and in wanting the white rump and tail-coverts of that 

 species ; it is also destitute of its silky olive green plumage. 

 How far north its migrations extend I am unable to say 



The solitary sandpiper is eight inches and a half long, and 

 fifteen inches in extent ; the bill is one inch and a quarter in 

 length, and dusky ; nostrils, pervious ; bill, fluted above and 

 below ; line over the eye, chin, belly, and vent, pure white ; 

 breast, white, spotted with pale olive brown ; crown and neck 

 above, dark olive, streaked with white ; back, scapulars, and 

 rump, dark brown olive, each feather marked along the edges 

 with small round spots of white ; wings, plain, and of a darker 

 tint ; under tail-covert, spotted with black ; tail, slightly 

 rounded, the five exterior feathers on each side, white, broadly 

 barred with black ; the two middle ones, as well as their 

 coverts, plain olive ; legs, long, slender, and of a dusky green. 

 Male and female alike in colour. 



YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE. (Scolopax flavipes.) 



PLATE LYIII.-Fig. 4. 



Arct. Zool. p. 463, No. 878.— Turt. Syst. 395.— Peak's Museum, No. 3938. 



TOT ANUS FLAVIPES.— VlElLLOT.* 



Totanus flavipes, Ord's edit. p. 59. — Bonap. Cat. p. 26. 



Of this species I have but little to say. It inhabits our sea- 

 coasts and salt marshes during summer ; frequents the flats at 

 low water, and seems particularly fond of walking among the 



* T. flavipes seems exclusively American. — Ed. 



