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SPECIES 7. SCOLOP.X FL.1 VIPES.
              YELLOW-SHANKS SNIPE.
                 [Plate LVIII. Fig. 4.]
9Irct. Zool. p. 463, JAo. 878.-TURT. Syst. 395.-PEALE'S MTIuseum,
                        No. 3938.*
  OiF this species I have but little to say. It inhabits our sea-
coasts, and salt marshes, during summer; frequents the flats at
low water, and seems particularly fond of walking among the
mud, where it doubtless finds its favourite food in abundance.
Having never met with its nest, nor with any person acquaint-
ed with its particular place or manner of breeding, I must re-
serve these matters for further observation.  It is a plentiful
species, and great numbers are brought to market in Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia, particularly in autumn. Though
these birds do not often penetrate far inland, yet on the fifth of
September I shot several dozens of them in the meadows of
Schuylkill, below Philadelphia. There had been a violent north.
east storm a day or two previous, and a large flock of these, ac-
companied by several species of Tringa, and a vast number of
the Short-tailed Tern, -appeared at once among the meadows.
As a bird for the table the Yellow-shanks, when fat, is in con-
siderable repute. Its chief residence is in the vicinity of the sea,
where there are extensive mud-flats. It has a sharp whistle, of
three or four notes, when about to take wing, and when flying.
These birds may be shot down with great facility, if the sports-
man, after the first discharge, will only lie close, and permit
the wounded birds to flutter about without picking them up; the
*GM.L. Sy~t. i, 1' 659, N i  ii :1 L<!<} in 1' 1 N  Jo! Or)
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