. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Greater Yellowlegs Occurrence in California.—Of general distribution in the vicinity of water during migrations. Winters sparingly in the San Joaquin Valley, in the San Diegan district, and in the Colorado and Imperial valleys. Authorities.—Gambel (Totanus melanoleucus), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, i., 1849, p. 223 (Pac. Coast U. S. in winter); Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xli., no. 1, 1902, p. 65 (western bird described as
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Greater Yellowlegs Occurrence in California.—Of general distribution in the vicinity of water during migrations. Winters sparingly in the San Joaquin Valley, in the San Diegan district, and in the Colorado and Imperial valleys. Authorities.—Gambel (Totanus melanoleucus), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, i., 1849, p. 223 (Pac. Coast U. S. in winter); Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xli., no. 1, 1902, p. 65 (western bird described as new subsp., Totanus melanoleucus frazari) \Bowles and Howell, Condor, vol. xiv., 1912, p. 9 (migr. dates at Santa Barbara).. Taken in San Luis Obispo County PORTRAIT OF GREATER YELLOWLEGS Photo by the Author OUR KNOWLEDGE of the Yellowlegs is absurdly limited to an en- forced acquaintance with his voice. Tew tew tew, tew tew tew, he shrieks wherever he goes. With tew tew tew he invades the swamp-lands seeking to exorcise therewith all foes, present, possible, or suspected. The birdman doesn't mind the racket, for all sounds in nature are good to him, and he would not abate their stirring harshness by one vibration. But with the hunter it is not so. He does not enjoy having his plans published nor his intended victims urged to flee for their lives. Therefore, the noisy bird foretells his own doom, and the end of the Telltale draws nigh. Yet I sup- pose the last member of this doughty race, starting southward sometime about 1940 from Calgary or Stickeen, will grasp his megaphone firmly and proceed to spread abroad the old, old gospel of alarm. He will sow the air, undaunted, with tew tew tew, until some Californian huntsman, arrived with his hammerless, powderless, aimless gun of that day, wrill drop him kerplunk! into a Sacramento bog. Sic transibit pestis mundi—and would, oh would, he might take the Killdeer with him; for be your business fair 1264. Please note that these
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