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U. S. P. E. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Carlisle, Pa 
do 
Cape May, N. J 
Oct. 26, 1840 
Mar. 10,1844 
April 20, 1841 
May —,1842 
S. F. Baird 

cf 
Q 
3 
do 
13.75 
14. 00 
do 
25. 00 
St. Joseph's, Mo 
Lieut. Warren 
Platte river, Neb 
do 

Eagle Pass, Texas 
Major Emory...' 
San Elizario, Texas 

do 
Kenn.&Moll 
Lieut. Trowbridge 
Lieut. Williamson 
do 
Gov. Stevens 
Bitter Root river, W. T 
Dr. Sucklev 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T . 
do 
do 
Puget's Sound 
Dr. Suckley . 
GAMBETTA FLAVIPES, (am.) Bon. 
Yellow Legs. 
Scolopax ftavipes, Gmklin, Syet. Nat, I, 1783, 659.— Wilso.v, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 55; pi. lviii. 
lotanus flawpes, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 400.— Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 390.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 
573 : V, 586 ; pi. 228.— Ie. Syn. 243.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 313 ; pi. 344. 
Gambf.tta flavipes, Bon. Comptes Rendus, Sept. 1856. 
Totanus fuscocapiUus, Vieit.l. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 400. 
Totanus natator, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 131 6, 409. 
Sp. Ch. — Bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender, compressed; wing long, pointed ; tail short; legs long, lower 
half of the tibia naked ; toes moderate, slender, margined, the outer and middle united at base ; rump and upper tail coverts 
white, the latter transversely barred with ashy brown ; other upper parts ashy, many feathers having large arrowheads and 
irregular spots of brownish black and edged with ashy white ; under parts white, with numerous longitudinal lines on the neck 
before, and arrowheads on the sides, of dark ashy brown ; axillaries and under wing coverts white, with bands of ashy brown, 
very indistinct in many specimens, but generally well denned ; quills brownish black ; tail ashy white with transverse bands of 
dark brown, middle feathers darker ; bill greenish black ; legs yellow. 
Young. Entire upper plumage tinged with reddish brown, neck before with lines much less distinct and pale ashy. 
Total length about 10 to 10^ inches; wing, 6 to 6£ ; tail, 2-J ; bill, 1£; tarsus, 2 inches. 
Hub. — Eastern North America ; western ? 
One of the most abundant of the species of this group on the Atlantic slope of the United 
States. We have never seen this bird from South America, though numerous in the winter in 
Mexico and the states of Central America. It is very similar to the preceding, though smaller. 
