60 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
253. Green-shank (Glottis nebularia). 
Range.—Eastern Hemisphere. Breedsin northern Europe and Asia; winters from the Mediterranean 
and China to Australia and southern Africa; accidentalin Florida. 
Names.—There are, of course, no vernacular names for this speciesin America; some 
English names are cinereous godwit and green-shank snipe; and French names, barge 
grise (gray godwit), barge variée (variegated godwit), chevalier aboyeur (barking sand- 
piper), chevalier a bec retroussé (sandpiper with the upturned beak), and chevalier 
aux pieds verts (green-legged sandpiper). 
Yellowlegs (Totanus). Nos. 254 and 255. 
The two species of yellowlegs share a number of names which it may be well to list 
separately from their individual cognomens. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Yellowlegs. 
In local use.-—Cucu (Mass.); kill-cu (N. J.); klook-klook, patte jaune, pied jaune 
(yellowlegs) (La.); plover (Nebr.); tattler (Ohio, Ind.); telltale (N. J., Ind., Wis.); 
FIG. 45.—Greater Yellowlegs. 
yellowleg plover (Me., Miss., Man.); yellowleg snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); yellowshanks 
(Que., Md., D. C., Va., N. C.); yellowshing (Va.). 
Geographic index.—D. C., yellowshanks; Ind., tattler, telltale; La., klook-klook 
patte jaune, pied jaune; Me., yellowleg plover; Man., yellowleg plover; Md., yellow- 
shanks; Mass., cucu; Miss., yellowleg plover; Nebr., plover; N. J., kill-cu, telltale; 
N. Y., yellowleg snipe; NV. C., yellowshanks; Ohio, tattler; Que., yellowshanks; Va., 
yellowshanks, yellowshins; Wis., telltale. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Chevalier aux pattes jaunes (yellow-legged sandpiper), yellowshanks plover. 
254. Greater Yellowlegs ( Totanus melanoleucus). (Fre. 45.) 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds from Lake Iliamna, Alaska, and southern Mackenzie 
(N. W.T.)tosouthern British Columbia, Ungava, Labrador, and AnticostiIsland; winters from southern 
California, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia (casually North Carolina) south to Patagonia; occurs in Ber- 
mudain migration. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Big yellowlegs; yellowlegs. 
In local use.—Auntsary (also spelled nansary and nasary) (Nfd., Labr.); big yellow- 
legged plover (N. J.); horse yellowleg (Conn.); large cucu (Mass.); large yellowleg 
