258 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



been reported from the Galapagos. We saw the birds several times 



in that vicinity. 



Family RECURVIROSTRID^. 



Genus Himantopus Brisson. 



Himantoptis Brisson, Ornithologist, vi, p. 33, 1760. 



Ra7tge. — Cosmopolitan (littoral). Galapagos Archipelago. 



32. HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS (Miiller). 



Charadrius mexicanus '^\5\AJ^^, Syst. Nat. SuppL, p. 117, 1776. 

 Himantopus 7nexica7ius Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 633, 1896 

 (Galapagos). — Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 189, 

 1899. 



Range. — South temperate and tropical America. Galapagos 

 Archipelago. 



This bird is rather rare about the archipelago. They seem to pre- 

 fer lakes and ponds of quiet water rather than the ocean beaches and 

 rocks along the shore. We observed them about the lake in the 

 crater a short distance south of Tagus Cove, Albemarle, on the ponds 

 back of the beach at James Bay, James Island, about similar ponds 

 on the west side of the southern Seymour Island, and at a lake on the 



upper part of Hood. 



Family SCOLOPACID^. 



Genus Tringa Linnaeus. 

 Tringa Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 148, 1758. 



Range. — Arctic and subarctic during the breeding season, cosmo- 

 politan during migrations. Galapagos Archipelago. 



33. TRINGA BAIRDII (Coues). 



A c todrotnas bairdii Cov^s, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 194, 1861. 

 Heteropygia bairdi Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., xix, p. 188, 

 1899 (Galapagos). 



Range. — Breeding in Alaska, migrating south to the interior of 

 North America and west coast of South America. Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago. 



Rothschild and Hartert report the only specimen of this species 

 known from the Galapagos Archipelago, as taken by the Harris expe- 

 dition on Barrington in October. 



34. TRINGA MINUTILLA Vieillot. 



Tringa mimitilla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet., xxxiv, p. 452, 1819. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 323, 1870 (Galapagos). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 631, 1896.— Rothschild and 

 Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 188, 1899. 



