146 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



224. Fhalaropus tricolor (VIEILL.). 



Wilson's Phalarope. 



Steganopus tricolor VIEILL. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 1819, 136. 

 Phalaropus tricolor STEJN. Auk, II. 1885, 183. 



[B 519, C 409, R 565, C 602.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, breeding 

 from Northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Saskatchewan re- 

 gion ; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 



FAMILY RECURVIROSTRID^E. AVOCETS AND STILTS. 



GENUS RECURVTROSTRA LINN/EUS. 



Recurvirostra LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 151. Type, R. avosetta 

 LINN. 



225. Recurvirostra americana GM. 



American Avocet. 



Recurvirostra americana GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 693. 

 [B S i 7 , C 4 o 7 , R5C6, C6oo.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, from the Saskatchewan and 

 Great Slave Lake southward ; in winter, south to Guatemala and the 

 West Indies. Rare in the Eastern Province. 



GENUS HIMANTOPTJS BRISSON. 



Himantopus BRISS. Orn. VI. 1760, 33. Type, Charadrius himanto- 

 pus LINN. 



226. Himantopus mesicanus (MULL.). 



Black-necked Stilt. 



Charadrius incxiranus MULL. S. N. Suppl. 1776, 117. 

 Himantopus mexicanus ORD, WILS. Orn. VII. 1824. 52. 



[B 518, C 408, R 567, C 601.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, from the Northern United States 

 southward to the West Indies, Brazil, and Peru. Rare in the Eastern 

 Province, except in Florida. 



