An Unusual Record of the Lesser Yellow-legs in the Pacific Ocean

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Irvin O. Buss

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An Unusual Record of the Lesser Yellow-legs in the Pacific Ocean.--On September 23, 1945, at latitude 25”, 17 N and longitude 148”, 23’ W, some 600 miles northwest of Hawaiian Islands, I netted a Lesser Yellow-legs (Totanus fiavipes) that landed on the flight deck of a United States naval carrier en route from the United States to Pearl Harbor. Examination showed that the bird was a female weighing 48.2 grams and with a completely empty.digestive tract. The skin was preserved and is in the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. This species has not been reported heretofore in or near Hawaiian Islands.-IRVEN 0. BUSS, State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington, December 13, 1955.

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Buss, Irvin O. (1956) "An Unusual Record of the Lesser Yellow-legs in the Pacific Ocean," Condor: Vol. 58 : Iss. 3 , Article 14.
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