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U. S. P* R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY— GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
201 
Carlisle, Pa_ 
Oct. 26,1840 
S. F. Baird. 
1301 
'<? 
_do_-_ 
Mar. 19,1844 
13.75 
301 
Q 
_do_ 
April 20,1841 
_do_ 
14. 00 
25. 00 
10457 
s 
Cape May, N. J_ 
May —,1842 
John K. Townsend_ 
4860 
St. Joseph’s, Mo_ 
Lieut. Warren_ 
Dr. Hayden_ 
5435 
Fort Bertliold, Neb_ 
5760 
Lieut. Brvan_ 
W. S. Wood. 
5759 
Laramie river, Neb_ 
6625 
Eagle Pass, Texas_ 
Major Emory_ 
A. Schott_ 
CG28 
4178 
Brazos Santiago Texas 
Captain Van Vliet_ 
6627 
Mohave river Cal 
Lieut. Whipple...... 
Kenn. &M611_ 
6631 
San Diego, Cal 
Lieut. Trowbridge_ 
6623 
Suisun valley, Cal_ 
Lieut. Williamson ... 
Dr. Heermann_ 
6624 
Shoalwater bay, W. T_ 
Gov. Stevens_ 
Dr. Cooper ....... 
6629 
Bitter Boot river, W. T.._ 
Dr. Sucklev ...... 
6630 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T_ 
__ _ .do_... 
4401 
Puget’s Sound_ 
Dr. Suckley ...._ 
GAMBETTA FLAVIPES, (Gra.) Bon. 
Yellow Legs. 
Scolopax jlavipes, Gmf.lin, Sysfc. Nat. I, 1788, 659.— Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 55; pi. lviii. 
Totanus jlavipes, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, VI, 1816, 400.—Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 390.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 
573; V, 586 ; pi. 228 .—Ib. Syn. 213 .—Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 313 ; pi. 344. 
Gambetta jlavipes, Bon. Comptes Rendus, Sept. 1856. 
Totanus fuscocapillus, Vie ill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 400. 
Totanus natator, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI, 1816, 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 aud 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 defined; 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 104 inches; wing, 6 to 6£ ; tail, 2Ji; bill, ; tarsus,2 inches. 
Hab.— 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. 
