A Synopsis of the Birds of North America

by John James Audubon

Plate CCLXXXIX. Male and Female.

Bill a little longer than the head, very slender, greenish-black; feet greenish-grey, long; upper part of head, lores, cheeks, hind part and sides of neck greyish-brown, streaked with brownish-white; a dull white line from the bill to the eye; upper part of throat greyish-white; fore neck of the same colour, streaked with greyish-brown; the rest of the lower parts white; the axillars and wing-coverts broadly barred with dusky; back and scapulars deep greenish-brown, the feathers edged with a few small spots of white and dusky, those of the inner secondaries more numerous; larger wing-coverts similar; smaller coverts, primary coverts, and primaries, deep brownish-black, secondaries greyish-brown; tail feathers and coverts broadly banded with white and brownish-black, except the two middle, which are merely spotted with white on the edges.

Male, 8¹/₂, 16¹/₂.

Distributed from Texas over the United States, breeding in deep woody situations, in the Fur Countries on the bare sand. Columbia River. Partially migratory.

Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 53.

Totanus chloropygius, Bonap. Syn. p. 325.

Totanus chloropygius, Green rump Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 393.

Green-rump Tatler, Totanus chloropygius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 576; v. v. p. 583.

345. 3. Totanus flavipes, Lath. Yellowshanks Tatler.—Yellowshanks Snipe.

Plate CCLXXXVIII. Male.

Bill a fourth longer than the head, black; feet long, bright yellow; upper part of the head, lores, cheeks, hind part and sides of the neck deep brownish-grey, streaked with greyish-white; a white line from the bill to the eye; fore neck greyish-white, streaked with greyish-brown, as are the sides; the rest of the lower parts white; the lower tail-coverts slightly marked with grey, the axillars and loral wing-coverts banded or spotted with the same; back and scapulars olivaceous brown, tinged with grey, the feathers edged with small dusky and white spots; wing-coverts and inner secondary quills similar, the marginal spots on the latter forming bands; primary quills blackish-brown, the shaft of the outer brownish-white, of the rest dark brown, the edges of the inner, and of the middle secondaries white; hind part of back brownish-grey; rump white, upper tail-coverts and tail barred with greyish-brown and white.

Male, 10³/ , 20.

From Texas to Maine, in autumn and spring. Very abundant at the same seasons throughout the interior. Breeds in the Fur Countries, up to the highest northern latitudes.