. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . long bill turned inquisitively from side toside detracts not a little from the general impression of up to its breast in shallow waters, or running nimblyover the sand flats and muddy beaches, the yellowleg keeps itsbill almost constantly employed dragging worms, snails, andsmall shell fish from their holes, probing for others, and pickingup tiny crustaceans swimming along the surface of the water orcrawling over the beach. It is a long excursion from Labrado
. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . long bill turned inquisitively from side toside detracts not a little from the general impression of up to its breast in shallow waters, or running nimblyover the sand flats and muddy beaches, the yellowleg keeps itsbill almost constantly employed dragging worms, snails, andsmall shell fish from their holes, probing for others, and pickingup tiny crustaceans swimming along the surface of the water orcrawling over the beach. It is a long excursion from Labrador to the Argentine Re-public, yet birds hatched at the end of June at the north reachSouth America in October, leaving again in March, and so enjoyperpetual summer. Yellowlegs ( Tot anus fiavipes) Called also: SUMMER YELLOWLEGS; LESSER TELLTALE;TELLTALE SNIPE; YELPER; LITTLE CU-CU; LESSERYELLOWSHINS; LITTLE STONE SNIPE, ETC Length—lo to \2 inches. Male and Female—Coloration precisely as in the greater yellow-legs. This bird is to be distinguished only by its smallersize, and its proportionately longer legs. 224. Snipe, Sandpipers, etc. Range—North America at large, nesting from the northern states to the Arctic regions; wintering from the Gulf states to —Chiefly a spring and autumn visitor; more abundant in autumn; rarely a summer resident; April, May; July to October. The haunts, habits, and noisy voices of the two species ofyellowlegs are so nearly identical, like their plumage, that adescription of them would be simply a repetition of the largerbirds biography. From the fact that some of these birds nestwithin the United States limits, they have been called summer yel-lowlegs ; but the great majority act precisely as their larger doubledoes, and so have earned only diminutives of its popular the Mississippi region the lesser telltale is far more commonthan in the east, but it is still abundant on the Atlantic coast inthe autumn migrations, at
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