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Adult female.— Whig, 130-137.5 (132.6); tail, 52.5-65 (55.9); 

 exposed culmen, 31-36 (33); tarsus, 30.5-33 (31.7); middle toe, 

 24.5-26.5 (25.3).'^ 



Breeding from central Washington, central Alberta, Saskatchewan 

 (north to lat. 55°), Lake Winnipeg, etc., soutliward to eastern Cali- 

 fornia (Tulare Lake; Lake Tahoe; Lower Klamath Lake), Nevada 

 (Soda Lake, Carson Desert; Humboldt Co.), Utah (Salt Lake Valley), 

 southern Colorado, southern Kansas (Meade Co.), northern Iowa, 

 northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, and Wisconsin; migrating 

 southward through Mexico (Valley of Mexico; Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, 

 Tlalpam, and Laguna de Chapulco, Puebla; Jeres, Zacatecas; Tres 

 Marias Islands, Tepic), Guatemala (Lake of Duenas), etc., to ChUc 

 (Valparaiso Bay; Lake Quintero), Argentina (Barracas al Sud, 

 Buenos Aires; Calchaquies, Tucuman; Mendoza; Misiones; Chubut 

 Valley, Patagonia), Falkland Islands, and Galapagos Archipelago 

 (Albemarle Island) ; occasional (sometimes locally numerous) along 

 Pacific coast, from southern British Columbia to Lower California; 

 occasional during migration in eastern United States and Canada 

 (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Long 

 Island, New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina); accidental in 

 England (Leicestershire). 



Phalaropus lobatus (not Tringa lobata Linnseiis) Wilson, Am. Orn., ix, 1814, 72, 

 pi. 73, fig. 3.— Ord, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ix, 1825, 72, pi. 73, fig. 3.— Hart- 

 LAUB, Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 25. 



Steganopus tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 136 (Para- 

 guay; based on Chorlito tarso comprimeido Azara, Apunt. Parag., iii, 1803, 

 327). — Whitaker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, 297 (Leicestershire, England; 

 accidental). — Rives, Auk, iv, 1887, 73 (Newport, Rhode Island, 1 spec, 

 Sept. 13, 1886).— Butcher, Auk, v, 1888, 177 (Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, 

 1 spec, Sept. 13, 1887).— Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 30, pi. 4.— Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 705. — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 126; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 108.— Stone, 



<^ Eleven specimens. 



