AYES. 67 



LIMICOLAE. 



PHALAROPODIDAE. 



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

 June 15; July 24 Nov. 



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

 Sept. 22. 



Mass. — Common migrant, mainly offshore. May 1-2G; Aug. 

 10-Oet. 13. 



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

 Sept. 15. 



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



120. STEGANOPUS TRICOLOR Vieillot. 

 Wilson's phalarope. 



Vieill., Nouv. diet, d'hist. nat., 1819, vol. 32, p. 136. "Para- 

 guay." 



Phalarojms wilsonii Sab,ine. 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. 

 is 31. 



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



Conn. — Accidental visitor: Bridgeport. 



REtTRYIROSTRIDAE. 



130. Recurvirostra Americana Gmelin. 



American avocet. 



(duel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, |>t. 2, p. 693. "in America 

 septentrion vu X- nova Hollandia." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, ]». 2 1, pi. 353. 



