. . lights. Theinaccessibility of the breeding grounds of this bird and theprotection that it receives on Anticosti Island have donemuch to keep up the numbers of those which migrate throughNew England. The Winter Yellow-legs is a bird of the meadow, marsh andthe muddy shores of fresh-water streams and ponds. Whenalighting it often raises its wings and folds them slowly, thennods its head, teetering its whole body up and down and utter-ing its sweet whistling cries. The flocks fly compactly, and,like many other shore birds, they turn
. . lights. Theinaccessibility of the breeding grounds of this bird and theprotection that it receives on Anticosti Island have donemuch to keep up the numbers of those which migrate throughNew England. The Winter Yellow-legs is a bird of the meadow, marsh andthe muddy shores of fresh-water streams and ponds. Whenalighting it often raises its wings and folds them slowly, thennods its head, teetering its whole body up and down and utter-ing its sweet whistling cries. The flocks fly compactly, and,like many other shore birds, they turn, and rise or fall, as ifat the word of command. In spring at low tide this bird frequents the pools andstreams in the salt marshes of Cape Cod, where it picks uplittle minnows and other aquatic forms of life. It seems to bevery fond of both land and water insects, and must do con-siderable good as an insect eater. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 303 YELLOW-LEGS (Totanns flavipes). Common or local names: Summer Yellow-leg; Summer; Little Yellow-leg Small Length. — 10 to 11 inches; bill Adult. — Closely resembles the Greater Yellow-legs, but is about one-thirdsmaller. Notes. — A call like that of the Greater Yellow-legs, but usually composedof fewer syllables, sometimes only one, often only two. Season. — A rare spring but common fall migrant locally and irregularlyfor brief periods; early May to June and early July to October. Range. —• North and South America. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska,northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin and southern Ungava to valleyof Upper Yukon, southern Saskatchewan and northern Quebec; wintersin Argentina, Chile, Patagonia, and casually in Mexico, Florida andBahamas; in migration occurs mainly east of Rocky Mountains (rarein spring on Atlantic coast) and in Pribilof Islands, Greenland andBermuda; accidental in Great Britain. Lesser Yellow-legs formerly was one of the mostnumerous of all the shore birds of Nor
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