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Few birds are flying: lulled by the (up, [(1/1 of the water,l have almost fallen asleep. when from far up in the gray sky comes a soft, ilutclike whistle, u'lzcu. u'hcu-zchwu-[clamor/lea, u'hcu, zeliwI-u'lmr. l rc- spond quickly, and. lying on my back, look eagerly upward. Not a bird can be seen. but the questioning call grows stronger and is re- peated more frequently. Finally I distinguish five or six black points sailing in narrow circles so high that I can scarcely believe they are the birds I hear. But no bar or shoal breaks the sound waves. The birds grown large‘ and on widening circles sweep earthward. Their sol’t whistle has a plaintive tone; their long,r bills turn inquiringly from side, to side. The stolid decoys give no response. they repel rather than encourage, but the whistling continues. and with murmured notes of interrogation the deluded birds wheel over them, to find too late that they have blundercd.

255- Totanus flavipes ((lmxrl.) YELLow—LIeas; SYMMEP. YELLow— LE s. :11]. in sunnmv'r—L'pper parts generally brownish gray. the head and neck streaked with black and white. the back. scapulars. and wingwoverts with sometimes black centers. spotted or tipped with whitish or brownish gray; upper tail—coverts white. more or less barred with black. tail varying from white to brownish gray. with numerous black or blackish cross—bars; breast. heavily spotted or streaked and sides barred with black; belly white, legs yellow. ll'int: 1- [I/t!Ill/I‘llr.*§llllllul', but upper parts brownish gray. the sides of the feathers with whitish spots; tail-bars grayish; breast lightly streaked with ash): L. ]t'75: “X. 6'4”; Tara. WV»: 3.. 1'4“. i

It’mzru'ks.——'l'liis bird closely resembles the Greater Yellow~lcgs in color, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size.

[fringe—North America. breeding ehielly in the interior from Minnesota, northern llliuois. Untario (,‘ounty. N. Y.. northward to the, arctic regions; winters from the Hull" States to Patagonia.

\\'asliinr_rton. rather common T. V.. .\pl. to May 17»: Aug. to Nov. Long Island, '1‘. \'., very rare in spring, abundant in tall; July 15 to Oct. 1. Sing Sing, tolerably common '1‘. V. in fall ; Aug. 2:") to Oct. 5. Cambridge, rare in May; sometimes common in Ana. and early Sept.

[if/(DR three to tour. buti'y (variable as to shade). distinctly (sometimes broadly) spotted or blotehed with dark maddcr- or vandyke—brown and pur— plish irray,1‘i‘)9 x 1‘15 ('Ridgw.).

This species closely resembles the preceding in notes, habits. and choice of haunts. It decoys, however, more easily, and, generally speaking, is more common.

The (lam: '—sn.\Nk (253. Talon 71s mind/Irina) is an Old—World species, of which three specimens were taken by Audubon. May ZR. Hit”. n>ar (‘ape Sable, Florida. It resembles our (ireater Yellowdegs. but ditl'ers chiefly in

having the lower baek and rump white.

The GREEN SANnI-Irna (2:37. Taft/nus m'h/vn/mm is an Old—World species which has been recorded once from Nova Sentia. It resembles our Solitary