AVES. 67 



LIMICOLAE. 



PHALAROPODIDAE. 



Me. Common migrant, mainly offshore. (Feb.) May 3- 

 June 15; July 24-Nov. 



N. H. Common migrant, mainly offshore. May; Aug. 9- 

 Sept. 22. 



Mass. Common migrant, mainly offshore. May 1-26; Aug. 

 10-Oet. 13. 



R. I. Common migrant, mainly offshore. May; Aug. 16- 

 Sept. 15. 



Conn. Offshore migrant. Spring ?; Aug. 4-Sept. 27 (Dec. 25). 



129. Steganopus tricolor Vieillot. 

 Wilson's phalarope. 



VieilL, Xouv. diet, d'hist. nat., 1819, vol. 32, p. 136. "Para- 

 guay." 



Phalaropus wilsonii Sabine. Swainson and Richardson, Fauna 

 Boreali-Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. 405, pi. 69. 



Chiefly freshwater marshes; nests on the ground. 



Me. Accidental visitor: Sabattus Pond, Sept. or Oct. 1906; 

 Scarborough, three, June 9, 1891. 



X. H. Accidental visitor: Rye Beach, Aug. 15, 1872. 



Mass. Accidental visitor (five records). May 20; Aug. 

 18-31. 



R. I. Accidental (fall) visitor (five records). Aug. 2-Sept. 13. 



Conn. Accidental visitor: Bridgeport. 



RECURVIROSTRIDAE. 



130. Recurvirostra Americana Gmelin. 



American avocet. 



Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 693. "in America 

 septentrionali & nova Hollandia." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, p. 24, pi. 353. 



