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Totanus melanoleucus.
Totanus melanoleucus
late Autumnal note.
I found two Greater Yellow legs
on the meadow below the house
and shot one of them. The other,
Flood this morning at 12° and the
meadows were frozen hard in the
forenoon.
Oct. 20 saw four Yellow legs to-day and shot
three of them.
Oct. 23. Shot one at the outlet. It had the
lower mandible shattered by a shot & hanging
by a single shred. Yet it was feeling briskly