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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Seven. Banks of Clyde (Lanark) 

 some years previous to 1870. Scilly Isles, Sept. 21, 1882. Near 

 Marazion (Cornwall), Oct., 1884 (Saunders, p. 611). Rye Harbour 

 (Sussex), Aug. 7, 1904 (C. B. Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., xv, p. 12 ; 

 cf. Brit. B., ii, p. 269). Littlest one (Kent), seen July 18, shot Aug. 

 15, 1908 (Duchess of Bedford, Brit. B., n, pp. 136, 170). Pevensey 

 (Sussex) one April 17, 1914, one May 30, 1916 (J. B. Nichols, op. c, 

 vni, p. 13, xii, p. 93). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — In summer in northern N. America, 

 winters from West Indies to Argentina, and has been recorded from 

 Greenland and Bermudas. Replaced by a closely -allied form in 

 westernmost -N. America. 



TRINGA FLAVIPES 



410. Tringa flavipes (Gm.)- THE YELLOWSHANK. 



Scolopax flavipes Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, ii, p. 659 (1789 — New York). 

 Totanus flavipes (Gmelin), Yarrell, in, p. 480 ; Saunders, p. 613. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Fore-head and 

 nape ash -brown, feathers narrowly edged white ; crown, mantle 



Bills of adults of— 



The Common Redshank {Tringa 

 t. totanus), female. 



The Yellowshank ('/'. flavipes), 

 <f male. 



The Greater Yellowshank 

 ('/'. melanoleuca), female. 



The Greenshank (T. nebularia), 

 male. 



and scapulars ash -brown, feathers with sepia shaft -streaks and 

 lighter tips and faintly edged greyish -white, scapulars mostly 

 notched black-brown and narrowly edged white ; back and rump 



