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with numerous black or blackish cross-bars; breast heavily spotted or 
streaked and sides barred with black; belly white, legs yellow. Ads. and 
Juv. in winter. — Similar, but upperparts brownish gray, the sides of the 
feathers with whitish spots; tail-bars grayish; breast lightly streaked with 
ashy. L., 10*75; W., 6*40; Tar., 2*05; B., T40. 
Remarks. — This bird closely resembles the Greater Yellow-legs in 
color, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size. 
Range. — -N. and S. A. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, n. Macken- 
zie, cen. Keewatin, and s. Ungava to the valley of the Upper Yukon, s. 
Sask.,,and n. Que. ; winters in Argentina, Chile, . and Patagonia, and 
casually in Mex., Fla., and the Bahamas; in migration occurs mainly e. of 
the Rocky Mts. (rare in spring on the Atlantic coast), and in the Pribilof 
Islands, Greenland, and Bermuda; accidental in Great Britain. 
Washington, rather corpmon T. V., Mch. to May 15; Aug.-Oct. Long 
Island, T. V., very rare in spring, abundant in fall; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, 
tolerably common T. V., in fall; Aug. 25-Oct. 5. Cambridge, rare T. V., 
May; Aug. 4-Sept. 15. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. 20-May 15; Sept. 1- 
Oct. 30. Glen Ellyn, quite regular, Apl. 15-May 19; July 6-Oct. 17. SE. 
Minn., common T. V., Apl. 7; Aug. 23-Oct. 11. 
Eggs , 3-4, buffy (variable as to shade), distinctly (sometimes broadly) 
spotted or blotched with dark madder- or vandyke-brown and purplish 
gray, 1‘69 x 1*15 (Ridgw.). Date , Ft. Anderson, Mack., June 5. 
This species closely resembles the preceding in notes, habits, and 
choice of haunts. It decoys, however, more easily, and, generally 
speaking, is more common. 
The European Red-shank ( Totanus totanus ) has been once recorded 
from Hudson Bay (Coues, Auk , XIV, 1897, 211). 
256. Helodromas solitaries solitaries ( Wits .). Solitary Sand- 
piper. Ads. in summer. — Upperparts olive-fuscous, with a slight greenish 
tinge, head and neck streaked and back spotted with white; upper tail- 
coverts fuscous, with fine whitish spots on their sides, lateral ones sometimes 
barred; central pair of tail-feathers fuscous, the others white, barred with 
black; breast streaked, and sides sometimes barred with black; belly white;, 
axillars barred with black and white ; legs greenish fuscous. Ads. and Juv. 
in winter. — Similar, ,V_ 
but upperparts gray- 
ish brown; head and 
neck generally un- 
streaked, and back 
only lightly spotted 
with buffy white; 
breast streaked with 
brownish gray. L., 
8*40; W., 5*25; Tar., 
1*20; B., 1*15. 
Range. — N. and S. A. Summers from cen. Keewatin, n. Ungava, and 
N. F. s. to Nebr., 111., Ind., Ohio, and Pa.; probably breeds regularly in the 
n. part of its range, locally and casually in the s. part; winters from the 
West Indies to Argentina; recorded from Greenland, Bermuda, and Great 
Britain. 
Fig. 82. Inner view of wing of Solitary Sandpiper, 
showing barred axillars. 
Washington, common T. V., Apl.-May 25; July 25-Nov. Long Island, 
common T. V., May; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, common T. V., May 3-30; 
Aug. 27-Oct. 2. Cambridge, common T. V., May 12-23; Aug. 10-Sept. 30. 
N. Ohio, tolerably common in summer, Apl. 20-Sept. 15. Glen Ellyn, fairly 
common T. V., Apl. 8-May 31; July 16-Oct. 6. SE. Minn, common T. V., 
Apl. 28; July 23-Oct. 4. 
Nest , lays in the abandoned nests of such tree-building birds as the 
