Abundant during autumn, winter, and spring, from Texas along the Atlantic, and throughout the interior to Labrador. Few breed in the Jerseys; most from Labrador northward. Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe, Scolopax vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 57. Totanus melanoleucus, Bonap. Syn. p. 324. Totanus vociferus, Tell-tale, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 389. Tell-tale or Greater Yellowshanks, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 148. Tell-tale Godwit, Totanus melanoleucus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 68. 347. 5. Totanus Glottis, Linn. Greenshank Tatler. Plate CCLXIX. Male. Bill nearly one-half longer than the head, dusky green; legs long dull greyish-green; all the lower parts, and the back, excepting a small portion anteriorly, pure white; the fore part of head and cheeks also white; loral band with small oblong spots of greyish-brown, sides of lower part of fore neck and a portion of the breast faintly undulated with grey; upper part of head, hind part and sides of neck, greyish-white, lineated with greyish-brown; scapulars and inner secondaries greyish-brown, edged with greyish-white, and lined or mottled with dark brown towards the margins; smaller wing-coverts plain brown, the larger darker near the edge, and margined with whitish, as are the outer secondaries; primary quills and coverts dark brown, the shaft of the outer white; tail greyish-white, undulated with light brown, the outer four feathers on each side with only a series of spots on the outer edge, which on the outermost feathers is almost obliterated. _Male_, 11, wing, 7. Only three procured on Sand Key, Florida. Scolopax Glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 245. Greenshank, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 68. Greenshank, Totanus Glottis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 483. 348. 5. Totanus semipalmatus, Lath. Semipalmated Tatler.--Willet. Stone Curlew. Plate CCLXXIV. Fig. 1. Male in spring. Fig. 2. Female in winter.