68 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LIMICOLAE 



RECURVIROSTRIDAE. 



Open lowlands and marshes; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Cape Elizabeth, Nov. 5, 1878. 



Vt. — Accidental visitor: St. Albans, fall, 1875, and 1890; 

 (nee Rutland, 1882). 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Ipswich, three, Sept. 13, 1896; 

 Lynn; Natick, Oct. 19, 1880. 



Conn. — Accidental visitor: between Saybrook and East Lyme, 

 1871. 



131. Himaxtopus mexicaxus (Miiller) Ord. 

 Black-necked stilt. 



Charadrius mr.vicanus Mull., Linne's Vollstand. natursyst., 

 suppl., 1776, p. 117. "Mexico." 



Himantopus nigricollis Vieill. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, p. 31, pi. 354. 



Salt marshes and lagoons; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Rockland, May, 1889; {nee Board- 

 man, New Brunswick). 



N. H.- — Accidental visitor: Rye Beach. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Lynn; Mass. coast. 



SCOLOPACIDAE. 



132. Philohela minor (Gmelin) Gray. 

 American woodcock; Bog-sucker; Woodcock. 



Scolopax minor Grnel., Syst. nat., 178S, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 661. 

 "in Americae, a Septembri inde in Carolinae, ab Aprilis 

 fine ix noveboraci silvis humidis." 



Mieroptcra americana Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, vol. 6, 

 p. 15, pi. 352. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 19, fig. 2. 



Freshwater swamps, damp woods and thickets; nests on the 

 ground. 



