From Texas to Maine, in autumn and spring. Very abundant at the same seasons throughout the interior. Breeds in the Fur Countries, up to the highest northern latitudes.
Yellowshanks Snipe, Scolopax flavipes, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 55.
Totanus flavipes, Yellowshanks Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 390.
Yellowshanks Tatler, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 152.
Yellowshank, Totanus flavipes, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 573; v. v. p. 586.
346. 4. Totanus vociferus, Wils. Tell-tale Tatler.--Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe. Greater Yellowshanks. Long-shanks. Humility. Clou-Clou.
Plate CCCVIII. Male and Female in winter.
Bill about half longer than the head, black, at the base bluish-grey; legs long, bright yellow. Upper part of head, lores, cheeks, and neck all round, excepting the throat, streaked with brownish-black, on a white ground, tinged with grey on the head and hind neck; breast, and abdomen, white; almost entirely spotted and barred with brownish-black, as are the sides and tail-coverts, together with the axillar feathers and lower wing-coverts; the lower surface of the primaries light grey, their shafts white; upper parts black, glossed with green, and variegated with white, each feather being margined with triangular spots of that colour; hind part of rump and upper tail-coverts white, barred with dusky; anterior small. Wing-coverts, alula, primary coverts, and primary quills, brownish-black, without spots, shaft of first primary white, of the rest brown; tail-feathers white, with numerous bands of dark greyish-brown, the middle six feathers more or less of a light brownish-grey toward the end, the bars not extending over their central part. In winter, the upper parts much paler, the lower having the greater part of the breast and abdomen pure white.
_Male_, 14, 24-3/4. _Female_, 13-3/4, 25-1/2.
Abundant during autumn, winter, and spring, from Texas along the Atlantic, and throughout the interior to Labrador. Few breed in the Jerseys; most from Labrador northward.
Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe, Scolopax vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 57.
Totanus melanoleucus, Bonap. Syn. p. 324.
Totanus vociferus, Tell-tale, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 389.
Tell-tale or Greater Yellowshanks, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 148.