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REC UR VIR STRIDE. 



(204.) Recurvirostra Americana Gmeliu. 



Recurvirostra occidentalis Vigors. Young. 

 Seen in large flocks on the sand-bars of the Colorado. 



(205.) Himantopus nigricolms Vieill. 



Common on the Colorado, in flocks, with the preceding. 



PRALAROPODIDM. 



(20fi.) Steganopus* Wilsonii (Sab.) 



A single specimen seen on the Colorado, Sept., 1865. The species is very 

 generally distributed throughout the interior of North America. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 



(207.) Gallinago Wilsoni, (Temm.) Bon. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the Territory. 



(208.) Macroramphus griseus (Gm.) Leach. 



Sparingly distributed througbout the Territory. Perhaps M. scolopacens 

 may also be found. 



(209.) Actodromas Baikdii Coues. 



Tringa " Schinzii" Woodhouse, Sitgreave's Expl. Zuni and Col. River, 



1853, p. 100. Not of Brehm, nor of authors generally. 

 Tringa Bonapartei, " Schlegel," Cassin, in Baird's B. N. A., 1858, p. 923. 

 In part. Of the specimens there enumerated Nos. 4869, 5442, 8800 are> 

 of this species ; No. 3451 is the true Bonaparlei. 

 Actodromas Bairdii, Coues, Pr. A. N. S. Ph. 1861, p. 194. 

 Very generally distributed throughout the whole interior of North America. 

 No instances of its occurrence on either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts have 

 come to my knowledge. Examination of several specimens taken near tha 

 Pueblo of Zufii, in New Mexico, by Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, which were not ac- 

 cessible at the time of the preparation of my monograph, as above, shows them 

 to belong to this species, and not to the A. Bonapartei, with which Dr. Wood- 

 house had identified them under the erroneous name of Tringa Sckinzii. These 

 specimens are interesting, as extending the range of ihe species west of the- 

 Rocky Mountains, and causing it to be included in the Whipple avifauna. 



This species has been recently referred to A. maculata, and considered as 

 founded upon a smaller race or upon immature specimens of the latter species, 

 by Dr. H. Schlegel ;f certainly an unfortunate error, and one well illustrating 

 how unsafe it is to pass judgment upon a species with which we are autopi- 

 cally unacquainted. If there be any specimens in the Museum of the Pays- 

 Bas referrible to maculata in any of its variations of size or colors, they are 

 by no means examples of the species I have named Bairdii. 



(210.) Actodromas minutilla (Vieill.) Coues. 



Seen in flocks on Little and Great Colorado Rivers, from July to October. 



(211.) Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.) Cass. 



Common on the Colorado. It is quite possible that Mr. Lawrence's new, 

 E. occidentalis may also be found on the streams of the Territory. 



212. Symphemia semipalmata (Gm.) Hartl. 



Sparsely distributed throughout the Territory. Individuals seen Oct. 18th 

 1864, in a marsh near Whipple. 



* The three North American species of Phalaropes are so dissimilar in form as to amply indicate 

 as many generic types: Steyunopus Vieill. (Wilsonii) ; Lobipes Cuv {hyperboreus) ; and 1'halaro- 

 pus Briss. (fulicarias.) 



t Article Tringx in Cat. Mus. d'llist. Pays-Bas. 



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