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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult jemale.—Wmg, 212-226 (217.7); tail, 79-87 (83.1); culmen, 

 79.5-93 (88.8); tarsus, 85-96 (90.3); middle toe, 37-44 (40.9) .« 



Breeding from eastern Oregon, central Alberta (Buffalo Lake) , Sas- 

 katchewan (Fort Carlton) — formerly to IMackenzie (Great Slave Lake; 

 Mackenzie River) — Manitoba (Winnipeg; Souris River), etc., south- 

 ward to southern California (Orange Co.), southern New Mexico, 

 southern Texas (Fort Bro\vn; Corpus Christi), northern Iowa, cen- 

 tral Wisconsin, etc.; migrating southward over Mexico (Matamoros, 

 Tamaulipas; Alvarado and Cordova, Ver-a Cruz; Guadalajara, Jalisco; 

 Oputo, Sonora; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Zacatecas; Guanajuato) to Gua- 

 temala (Chiapam) ; casual or occasional in eastern United States and 

 eastern Canada, from Ontario and New^ Brunswick to Florida; also in 

 Ouba, Jamaica, and Barbados. 



\^RecurvirosVra\ americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 693 (North America; 

 based on Pennant, Arct. Zool. ii, 1785, 502, pi. 21). — Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 787, part (includes B. novx-hollandise). — Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 

 1806, 419.— GuxDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba).— Gray, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1871, 47, no. 10288.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 247.— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 144.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 

 and revised ed., 1886, 26.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 154. 



JRecurvirostra americana Wilson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 126, pi. 63, fig. 2. — Leach, 

 Zool. Misc., ii, 1815, 114, pi. 101.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 

 1816, 103.— Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1820, 592.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 345; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 54.— Swainson and Rich- 

 ardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 375 (Saskatchewan, May). — Lesson, 

 Traite d'Orn., 1831, 592. — Ornithological Committee, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sei. 

 Phila., vii, 1837, 193 (Columbia River).— Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 

 168, pi. 318; Synopsis, 1839, 252; Birds Am., 8vo ed., \d, 1843, 24, pi. 353.— 

 TowNSEND (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United 

 States). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Grallae, 1844, 97.— Giraud, Birds 

 Long Is., 1844, 269. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 389. — Reichenbach, 



a Eleven specimens. 



