AMERICAN AVOSET. 



(Recurvirostra americana, Lin. Wilson, vii. p. 126. pi. 63. fig. 2 



Arct. Zool. ii. p. 212. No. 421. Phil. Museum, No. 4250.) 

 Sp.Charact. — White; tail tinged with cinereous 5 back and wings 

 black ; whole head and neck pale rufous. 



The American Avoset, supposed to winter in tropical 

 America, arrives on the coast of Cape May, in New Jersey, 

 late in April, where it rears its young, and with them again 

 retires to the south, early in the month of October. In the 

 spring they were observed by Mr. Say, in the lower part of 

 Missouri. They are also known to visit Nova Scotia, though 

 scarcely ever seen in the State of Massachusetts. Doctor 

 Richardson also found them abundant in the Saskatchewan 



