An Unusual Record of the Lesser Yellow-Legs in the Pacific Ocean
Journal
Condor
Volume
58
Issue
3 (May-June)
Year
1956
Pages
238
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
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.
