ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES. 127 



Range. — Breeds from central Oregon, northern Utah, southern Colorado, 

 and Nebraska to northern Lower California, southern New Mexico, southern 

 Texas, coast of Louisiana, and Mexico, and from central Florida, casually 

 Virginia (?) (formerly New Jersey) and the Bahamas through the West Indies 

 to northern Brazil and Peru. Winters from Lower California, southern Texas, 

 southern Louisiana, and Florida (casually North Carolina) south through 

 Central America and the West Indies to northern Brazil, Peru, and the Gahl- 

 pagos. Casual in migration north to North Dakota, central Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Illinois, and New Brunswick, and in Bermuda. 



Family PHALAROPODIDAE. Phalaropes. 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson. 



Phalaropus Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 50; VI, 12. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Phalaropus Brisson = Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus. 



Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). Red Phalarope. [222.] 



Tringa Fulicaria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. Based on the 

 Red Coot-footed Tringa Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 142. (in America 

 = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Alaska, Melville Island, northern Ellesmere 

 Island, and Greenland south to delta of the Yukon, northern Mackenzie (?), 

 Southampton Island, and Hudson Bay; also from Iceland (locally), Spitz 

 bergen, and Novaya Zemlya to eastern Siberia. Winters on the oceans off 

 the coast of South America, at least as far south as Falkland and Juan Fernan- 

 dez islands and off the coasts of Arabia and West Africa; reported in winter 

 north to southern California, Florida, and the Mediterranean Sea; migrates 

 along both coasts of the United States mainly well off-shore. Casual in 

 migration in southern California (inland), Colorado, Kansas, Alabama, 

 Vermont, Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Maryland; 

 rarely in Hawaii and New Zealand. 



Genus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 



Steganopus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., XXIV, 1818, 

 124. Type, by orig. desig., Le Charlito a tarse comprime Azara = 

 Steganopics tricolor Vieillot. 



Steganopus tricolor Vieillot. Wilson's Phalarope. [224.] 



Steganopus tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., XXXII, 

 1819, 136. (Paraguay.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Alberta, southern 

 Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba south to central California, Nevada, 

 Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, southern Kansas (formerly), central Iowa, Missouri 



