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YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE. 
below ; line over the eye, chin, belly, and vent, pure white ; 
breast, white, spotted with pale olive brown ; crown and neck 
above, dark olive, streaked with white ; back, scapulars, and 
rump, dark brown olive, each feather marked along the edges 
with small round spots of white ; wings, plain, and of a darker 
tint ; under tail-covert, spotted with black ; tail, slightly 
rounded, the five exterior feathers on each side, white, broadly 
barred with black ; the two middle ones, as well as their 
coverts, plain olive ; legs, long, slender, and of a dusky green. 
Male and female alike in colour. 
YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE SCOLOPAX FLAVIPES. 
Plate LVIII. Fig. 4. 
Arct. Zool. p. 463, No. 878 Turt. Syst. 395 Peak's Museum , No. 3938. 
TOTANUS FLAVIPES. — Vieillot.* 
Totanus flavipes, Ord's Edit. p. 59. — JBonap. Cat. p. 26. 
Of this species I have but little to say. It inhabits our sea 
coasts and salt marshes during summer ; frequents the flats at 
low water, and seems particularly fond of walking among the 
mud, where it doubtless finds its favourite food in abundance. 
Having never met with its nest, nor with any person acquainted 
with its particular place or manner of breeding, I must 
reserve these matters for farther observation. It is a plen- 
tiful species, and great numbers are brought to market in 
Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, particularly in autumn. 
Though these birds do not often penetrate far inland, yet, on 
the 5th of September, I shot several dozens of them in the 
meadows of Schuylkill, below Philadelphia. There had been 
a violent northeast storm a day or two previous, and a large 
flock of these, accompanied by several species of Tringa , and 
vast numbers of the Short-tailed Tern, appeared at once among 
the meadows. As a bird for the table, the Yellow-shanks, 
* T. flavipes seems exclusively American. — Ed. 
