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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
“ On Long Island I do not think it breeds, and I am not aware 
that their nests have been found on the seacoast of the United 
States. In autumn its flesh is very juicy and well flavored 
when procured late in the season, I think it superior to any 
of our shore birds; and I have partaken of it when I have 
thought it equal to any of our upland game. 
“ The Long-legged Sandpiper, the Curlew Sandpiper, and the 
Semipalmated Sandpiper, I purposely omit as so rare that they 
must not be regarded by the sportsman as regular game. 
Wilson’s Sandpiper and Schinz Sandpiper, I also omit on ac¬ 
count of their rarity, small size, or worthlessness.” 
No. 4. Yellow-Shanks Tatler— Totanus Flavipes ; Latham. 
Vulgo, the Yellow-Legs. 
Scolopax flavipes, Wils Amer. Orn. Totanus flavipes, Bonap. Syn. Tota¬ 
nus flavipes, Yellow-shanks Tatler, Sw. & Rich. Yellow-shanks, Totanus 
flavipes, Aud. Orn. Biog. 
“ Specific Character. —Bill along the ridge one inch and three- 
eighths ; length of tarsi one inch and seven-eighths; legs yel¬ 
low. Adult with the bill black; throat white; upper part of 
the head, lores, cheeks, hind part and sides of the neck, deep 
brownish-gray, streaked with grayish-white ; eye encircled with 
white, a band of the same color from the bill to the eye ; fore¬ 
neck, sides of the body, and upper part of the breast, grayish- 
white, streaked with grayish-brown ; lower part of the breast 
and abdomen white ; lower tail coverts white, the outer feath¬ 
ers barred with brown; scapulars and fore-part of the back, 
brown, the feathers barred and spotted with black and white ; 
primaries blackish-brown, the shaft of the outer brownish- 
white, whiter toward the tip—the rest dark brown ; secondaries 
margined with white; hind part of the back brownish-gray; 
tail barred with grayish-brown, white at the tip ; legs, feet, and 
toes yellow; claws black. Length ten inches and three quar¬ 
ters ; wing six. Young with the legs greenish—and by those 
who have not recognized it as the young of the year, I have 
heard the propriety of its name questioned. 
