. . i\V I EGS (Tounus tiavipes)I Life-size. SHORE BIRDS 135 ner, with much balancing and vibrating of the body andgraceful darting of the head in various directions, whilethey seek for their food. The greater yellow-legs exhibits great anxiety and sym-pathy for a wounded companion, and for a time seems toforget its own danger. The range of the greater yellow-legs is an extensiveone which includes America in general. It breeds uponnorthern Illinois and Iowa northward, and migrates southin the fall as far as Patagonia, some wintering i
. . i\V I EGS (Tounus tiavipes)I Life-size. SHORE BIRDS 135 ner, with much balancing and vibrating of the body andgraceful darting of the head in various directions, whilethey seek for their food. The greater yellow-legs exhibits great anxiety and sym-pathy for a wounded companion, and for a time seems toforget its own danger. The range of the greater yellow-legs is an extensiveone which includes America in general. It breeds uponnorthern Illinois and Iowa northward, and migrates southin the fall as far as Patagonia, some wintering in the GulfStates. In its migrations, it seldom remains more than aday or two at any one station, though the fall passage issomewhat slower than that of spring, when it seems to bein haste to begin the work of nesting. YELLOW-LEGS This is the bird commonly known to the sportsman asthe Lesser or Summer Yellow-legs, or Yellow-legged general habits and color there is little difference betweenthis and the greater yellow-legs. The present species, how-ever
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