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SCOLOPACINiE. TOTANUS. 
Totanus flavipes, Yellowshanks Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.- v.. iL 
p. 390. 
Yellowshanks Tatler, Nott. Man. v. ii. p. 152. 
Yellowshank, Totanus flavipes, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 573^ v. v. p. 586. 
346. 4. Totanus vociferus, Wils. Tell-tale Tatler. — Tell- 
tale Godwit or Snipe. Greater Yellow-shanks. Long- 
shanks. Humility. Clou-Clou. 
Plate CCCVIII. Male and Female in winter. 
Bill about half longer than the head, black, at the base bluish-grey ; 
legs long, bright yellow. Upper part of head, lores, cheeks, and 
neck all round, excepting the throat, streaked with brownish-black, 
on a white ground, tinged with grey on the head and hind neck ; 
breast, and abdomen, white ; almost entirely spotted and barred with 
brownish-black, as are the sides and tail-coverts, together with the 
axillar feathers and lower wing-coverts ; the lower surface of the pri- 
maries light grey, their shafts white ; upper parts black, glossed with 
green, and variegated with white, each feather being margined with 
triangular spots of that colour ; hind part of rump and upper tail- 
coverts white, barred with dusky ; anterior small. Wing-coverts, 
alula, primary coverts, and primary quills, brownish -black, without 
spots, shaft of first primary white, of the rest brown ; tail-feathers 
white, with numerous bands of dark greyish-brown, the middle six 
feathers more or less of a light brownish-grey toward the end, the 
bars not extending aver their central part. In winter, the upper parts 
much paler, the lower having the greater part of the breast and abdo- 
men pure white. 
MalCy 14, 24|. Female, ISf, 25^. 
Abundant during autumn, winter, and spring, from Texas along the 
Atlantic, and throughout the interior to Labrador. Few breed in the 
Jerseys ; most from Labrador northward. 
Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe, Scolopax vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 57. 
Totanus melanoleueus, Bonap. Syn. p. 324. 
Totanus vociferus. Tell-tale, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 389. 
Tell-tale or Greater Yellowshanks, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 148. 
Tell-tale Godwit, Totanus melanoleueus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 68. 
347. 5. Totanus Glottis, Linn. Greenshank Tatler. 
Plate CCLXIX. Male. 
Bill nearly one-half longer than the head, dusky green ; legs long 
dull greyish-green ; all the lower parts, and the back, excepting a 
small portion anteriorly, pure white ; the fore part of head and cheeks 
also white ; loral band with small oblong spots of greyish-brown, 
sides of lower part of fore neck and a portion of the breast faintly un- 
dulated with grey ; upper part of head, hind part and sides of neck, 
greyish-white, lineated with greyish-brown ; scapulars and inner se- 
