YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. 
the wing feathers are dark brown, the shaft 
first primary being white : the smaller primar 
slightly edged with white, and the secondariei 
strongly so : the upper tail-coverts are whit' 
belly, sides, thighs, and abdomen dingy whit 
under tail-coverts white, slightly barred with 1 
the tail-feathers brown, barred with narrow b; 
dingy white ; legs naked one inch and a quarte 
the knee ; tarsi two inches long ; toes slend^ 
entirely yellow." 
Native of North America, where it is abi 
particularly in the autumn, when great numb 
taken to the markets of Boston, New York, ai 
ladelphia, being in great repute for the tab 
inhabits the sea-coasts and salt marshes duri 
summer, frequenting the flats of the shore 
water, in search of its food. It has a sharp 
of three or four notes when about to take wi 
when flying. 
