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Mr. Dexter, in his article on the Liinicolai of 
this county, records only one authentic spec- 
imen being taken of the Yellow legs, Totanus 
flavipes, and the Solitary Sandpiper, Bhyacophi- 
lus solitarius. 
My experience with these birds has been fax 
different. I have found the latter bird common 
in different Darts of the county, and have shota 
great many of them. The former bird occurs 
very regularly every year in company with the 
Greater Yellow legs and Red-backed Sand- 
piers in September. 
I think if Mr. Dexter would take a trip to the 
Norton Reservoir after a northeast storm late 
in August or in September, he would find 
plenty of both kinds of Yellow legs and Sol- 
itaries as well. 
0.&-O.XI.Autfl88e.pJUW. 
Shore Birds of Oape Cod. 
John O. Gaboon. 
Yellow-legs, Totanus flavipes, (Gmel.) Sum- 
mer Yellow-legs on Cape Cod. A rare spring, 
and abundant summer and autumn migrant. 
I have never seen this bird in the spring and 
although individuals have been seen on Cape 
Cod at this season, it is of very rare occurrence. 
In the summer early migrants reach the Cape 
by the 15th of July and the flights usually oc- 
cur between August 6th and September 7th. 
In looking over my notes I find that the largest 
flights on Monomoy Island during the last 
three seasons have taken place on the follow- 
ing dates : August 15th, 1885 ; August 30th, 
1886; September 7th, 1887. None are seen 
after the middle or last of September. This 
elegant wader so familiar to New England 
sportsmen that go for marsh birds, is called 
Summer Yellow-legs on account of its being 
nutnerous in the summer season and to distin- 
guish it from the preceding species. It fre- 
quents mud flats, wet marshes and meadows 
and about the edges of muddy ponds. Its fa- 
vorite haunts, however, are salt marshes or 
meadows, where during heavy summer rains 
the water collects in large shallow pools. I 
have never seen it on the high beaches or sand 
flats. Its food and habits are similar to T. 
melanoleucus with the exception that it is more 
gregarious. Its notes are not as loud but 
clearer and mellow with no long interval and 
are repeated with greater rapidity. None of 
our shore birds are less suspicious or more easi- 
ly decoyed, and after a flock has been shot into 
many times, if any of the number are left they 
will return at the sound of a whistle, a poor 
imitation of their notes, with outspread wings 
and gracefully and confidingly alight among 
the decoys in the spot where a number of other 
relatives and friends had been slain a few mo- 
ments before. Like many of our other shore 
birds it is very fat in the summer and autumn, i 
O.&O. XIII, Sept. 1888 p.131 
Occurrence of Yellow-legs sw*d 
Pectoral Sundp'tpc y in the 
Spring, at Cape Cod, * 
Mass, 
On date of April 29, 1889, I shot three speci- 
mens of the Yellow-legs on a marsh at Mono- 
moy Island, Cape Cod. They were in company 
with one Greater Yellow-legs and a large 
.Sandpiper that I was unable to identify. The 
day following, while gunning near the point of 
the island, which is about six miles from the 
marshes, I saw three other small Yellow-legs 
in company with six Greater, feeding about a 
small pond. Although I could not get near 
enough to shoot one, I could easily identify 
the small Yellow-legs as they flew past me 
several times. Although one of our most 
abundant waders in the summer and autumn, 
it is exceedingly rare in the spring, and I have 
never before seen one on Cape Cod at this 
season. Many of our oldest and most exper- 
ienced collectors say that they have never 
taken or seen a specimen along the Cape 
coast in the spring. O & O. XIV. June. 188© p.94 
