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YELLOW-SHANKS. 
YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. TATLER. 
Totanus flavipes , Nuttall. Audubon. 
Scolopax flavipes, Wilson. 
Totanus— .? Flavipes . Flavus —Yellow. Fes —A foot. 
This Sandpiper abounds in North America, in various 
parts of the United States, and, in fact, from Florida to 
Labrador. 
In this country it has only occurred as a rarity, one 
having been shot at Misson, Nottinghamshire, near Bawtry, 
Yorkshire. It was preserved by Mr. Hugh Beid, of Doncaster, 
an old acquaintance of mine, and purchased by Sir W. E. 
M. Milner, Bart., M.P. for York. 
They migrate northwards in May, ‘au revoir’ southwards in 
September. 
They frequent the mud banks, wet marshes, and estuaries 
of the sea-coast; and also have been observed on dry uplands, 
by the sides of inland streams, and on cultivated grounds, 
They shew the usual signs of alarm on the nest being 
approached, flying round the intruder with drooping wings 
and feet. 
They feed on small fishes, shrimps, water and land insects, 
grasshoppers, and worms. 
The note is a sharp whistle of three or four notes, and is 
uttered when flying and when about to take wing. 
Male; length, nine inches and three quarters. The bill is 
black, the upper mandible rounded towards the point, which 
projects slightly downwards beyond the end of the lower one; 
iris, dark brown. Head, crown, neck on the back, and nape, 
