LIMIÙOLÆ. SWLOPACIDÆ.
ToTANmdæi VIPE S ('Gmelitt *|§ÎÉ
THE YELLÔW-SHANKED S ^D P lÊ É R ,
"Totanus' "jlmhÿès!’*^
_ ^HE first recorded ||ritish example of this, American Sand •
piper was MUed~a£Jlpssoii, in Nc^tinghaÿftp^^, about j^Soo
and a half miles , nor tfijeast of Bawtry, on the larders .of
Lincolnshire,| by one 'of a small party^nf^me^v.re^iÿng at
Misson; who got- their l iv in g ^ s h o ^ i^ ,wild-fowlj d®;ing
the sea|gp, for ,^ ïe ^ .T b §3
bird l^ a e d ggggj ^ hands ej -the late Mr. HughR^d.nt'
Doncaster, who,.considering it to j|b'e:,a; - Wood 'Sandpiper,
and a rare s p é ^ |^ caused it„i^h©-carefi111 \ pi« i\« 1 1 \ bi-.
own assistant, a,nd ^ |d it afterwards, to the then Sir William
,^y whom i^i-WaTs^brought London in- the
spring of, 1 8 ^ - and appropriated Jo! the Author’s use in this”
■ Soolopax flavipes,.Mm^n, Sjgt. ‘N i f c ^ S 659 (]788|)P\.
work. ^ -The figure an d ' description here given1 wère taken
from thi^'Specimén, which is now in the Léeds Museum1. v:
^Another example was stated by Graham of York (Naturalist;
1858t p. 291), without a particle of- substantiating evidence?
toj have'been"obtained^ near Tadcaster; but a -second genuine
specimen óf -this straggler was shot' by Mr* Edward Yingoe,
off the 12th'Bept'ember, 1871,' from3 the margin mf a pool in
a saltmarsh .near MaraziOn, about-two miles from Penzance,
as'aecerded by-the late Mr. E . H. Redd (Zool.-1871? p.j2807);
with ample "diagnosis and details. :
*fThe Yellow-shanked Sandpiper is a very abundant speéies
in North America,-breeding ir£ high latitudes, and migrating
southwards .in autumn. On passage i f |s generally distriBüfêd
throughoutïjife greater - part of the United fJtates,
e |”peption óf tl^lPacifie* sidq of the Rocky Mountains, where
itfi# oft#ar.e occurrence ,• and in winter-it^goes' south3 to th e
Bahamas, Mexico, ^Gentr al' and''- South America as fa r a s ’-the-'
Rio de la Plata-on' th'e Sa¥if*ah'd "Peru ohthe-wèst.
- Jfhqfnést, according^1© ptf^Elliott Goues,Ts-a’Cmbref ^depression
lined'with a-few dried leaves or - grasses',1 and the*
eggSj'thr'eéiior four- in number/'pre' of a clear clay colour,!’
bipdly' blotched-with umberr and <^ócbkte-b'rovraY 'they
measifredaboht ' f*-7^4)y T15 in. ' The- food- of thé,Yellow-
shanks consists of small fishes, shrimps, worms, aquafcLc^and
other'">in|e'cts, and san^.hopperst Its habits are similar to
tbgse of other Sandpiperp; ^
- The ^.hole length of the bird is ten inches and threequarters
^;th%(bill,^from the point to the commencement of
the feathers on the forehead, on© inch and fiveaeighths;
wing, ifrpm-the anterior bend-to, the end of the longest quill-
feafher, si^mchea, the first quill-feather, the longed in * Shewing
; the naked part o.f the leg one inch and a half, thence
dipthe- junction o f the toes two- mches&and a quarter) length
of, the middle -one inch and a quarter*- The bill black,
upper mandible^rounded in form towards the point, the point
itself projecting- slightly beyond tbei,and‘mf' the lower mam
dibleirides dark browns top of tfip head, back of the necfe
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