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1883, 351 (Lower California south of lat. 24° SO').— Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 34L— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 18 (Colo- 

 rado). — Beckham, Auk, ii, 1885, 144 (Pueblo, Colorado); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., X, 1887, 642 (Bexar Co., Texas), 651 (Corinis Christi, Texas). — Agers- 

 BORG, Auk, ii, 1885, 286 (s. e. South Dakota).— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 91 (Ventura Co., California, 1 spec, April 28, 1881).— Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 151 (s. w. Manitoba). — Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 386 (near Tucson, Arizona, fall 

 migrant); ix, 1892, 12 (Jamaica). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 225; 8rd ed., 1910, p. 108.— Townsend 

 (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 163, 198 (w. Lassen Co., California, 

 June). — Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 232 (West Indian localities and references); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 232; Cat. West Ind. Birds. 1892, 92 (Cuba; Jamaica; 

 Barbados).— Jeffries, Auk, vi. 1889. 223 (Santa Barbara, California, April 

 19).— Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2nd ser., ii, 1889, 27] (La Paz, 

 Lower California). — Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 492 (Barbados). — Thompson, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 497 (Winnipeg and Souris River, Manitoba). — 

 Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 104 (near Coi-pus Christi, Texas, 

 breeding). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 232 (San Antonio, Texas, migrant). — 

 Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892, 360 (Grant Co., s. w. New Mexico, Sept. 7). — 

 Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, 272 (near Ponquoge, Long Island, in 1844; Canarsie, 

 Long Island, 1847; Southampton, Long Island).— Fisher (A. K.), N. Am. 

 Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 22 (Ash Meadows, Nevada, March 15; Owen's Lake, 

 Little Owens Lake, near Kernville, Buena Vista Lake, Owens Valley, and 

 Morro Bay, California). — Stone, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1894, 70 (New 

 Jersey coast, rare). — Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 33, pi. 5. — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 330, 752 ("Hudson Bay Territory*'; Zac- 

 atecas; Chiapam, Guatemala; etc.). — Kennard, Auk, xiv, 1897, 212 (Ij^s- 

 wich, Mass., 3 specs., Sept. 13, 1896).— Cobeaux, Ottawa Nat., 1900, 27 

 (s. Saskatchewan, rare). — Fleming, Auk, xix, 1902, 79 (Toronto, Ontario, 1 

 spec, Sept. 19, 1901); xxiii, 1906, 448 (Toronto, 2 records).— Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 363 (Matamoros, Tamaulipas; 

 Oputo, Sonora; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Rio de Coahuyana, CoHma; Zacatecas; 

 Guanajuato; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Valley of Mexico; Alvarado and Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz; Chiapam, Guatemala). — Braislin, Auk, xxii, 1905, 78 (Barnegat, 

 New Jersey, 1 spec, May 30, 1880).— Allen (A. A.), Auk, xxvii, 1910, 344 

 (Ithaca, New York, 1 spec, Sept. 15, 16, 1909).— Allen (G. M.), Auk, xxx, 

 1913, 23 (Essex Co., Massachusetts, May 23, 1887). — Bunker, Kansas Univ. 

 Sci. Bull., \'ii, 1913, 143 (Kansas, rare summer resident). — Grinnell (J.), 

 Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 11, 1915, 49 (California; common summer visitor 

 to interior valleys and Modoc region, breeding northward to Lower Klamath 

 Lake and southward to Santa Ana, Orange Co.). — Horsbrugh, Ibis, 1916, 

 680 (near Buffalo Lake, Alberta, breeding). 



R[ecurvirostra] amerkana Bonaparte, Obs. Nom. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [201]. — 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 576.— Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 9 

 (Missouri). — Ridgway, Ann. Lye N. Y., x, 1874, 385 (Illinois); Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 146.— Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 115.— 

 CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 611. 



Avocetta americana Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat., ed. 1, iii, 1804(?), 340. 



Himantopus americnnus Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, 2,30 (Geog. range; crit.); Geog. 

 Distr. Charadriidas, 1887, pp. xxi, 291, fig. 



H[imantopus] americanus Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 75. 



(?)[Reairvirostra] alba Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 694 (Hudson Bay;basedon 

 Limosa Candida Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 290; Barge blanche Daubenton, PI. 

 Enl., pi. 875; White Godwit Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. 139; White Avocet 



