. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. TELL-TALE GOD WIT, OR SN/PE. TELL-TALE GODWIT, OR SNIPE. (Scolopax vociferus.) PLATE 5. Stone Snipe, Arct. Zool. p. 4G8, No. 370.—Tm*-*. Syd. p. 3QQ.~Pealc's Mmmm, No. 3940. TOTANUS MELANOLEUCUS.—YiEJhWT.* T. melanoleucus, OnVs reprint of Wils. p. 61.—Bonap. Si/nop. p. 324. This species and the preceding are both well known to our duck-gunners along the sea-coast and marshes, by whom they are detested, and stigmatised with the names of the greater and lesser tell-tale, for
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. TELL-TALE GOD WIT, OR SN/PE. TELL-TALE GODWIT, OR SNIPE. (Scolopax vociferus.) PLATE 5. Stone Snipe, Arct. Zool. p. 4G8, No. 370.—Tm*-*. Syd. p. 3QQ.~Pealc's Mmmm, No. 3940. TOTANUS MELANOLEUCUS.—YiEJhWT.* T. melanoleucus, OnVs reprint of Wils. p. 61.—Bonap. Si/nop. p. 324. This species and the preceding are both well known to our duck-gunners along the sea-coast and marshes, by whom they are detested, and stigmatised with the names of the greater and lesser tell-tale, for their faithful vigilance in alarming the ducks with their loud and shrill whistle on the first glimpse of the gunner's approach. Of the two, the present species is by far the most watchful ; and its whistle, which consists of four notes rapidly repeated, is so loud, shrill, and alarming, as instantly to arouse every duck within its hearing, and thus disappoints the eager expectations of the marksman. Yet the cunning and experience of the latter are frequently more than a match for all of them ; find before the poor tell-tale is aware, his warning voice is hushed for ever, and his dead body mingled with those of his associates. * Bonaparte in his " Nomenclature " remarks," This hird is iindoubt- edlj' the 8. melanoleuca of Gmelin and Latham, first made known by Pennant, Why Wilson, who was aware of this, should have changed the name, we are at a loss to conceive. Mr Ord was, therefore, right in restoring ; The species has not been discovered out of North America, and will take the place in that country of the European greenshank. Totanus is a genus of Bechstein, now generally acknowledged as the proper place for the sandpipers of this form. Many of them do not undergo so decided a change during the breeding season, breed more inland, and, during winter, are as frequently found on the banks of rivers and lakes, or in inland marshes, as upon the shore
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