39. RECCRVIROSTIM. 331 



1'roc. Actul. Nat. Sci. Philad. 18«M5, p. 97 (Arizona) ; id. Pro-. 

 Host. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 124 (1868 : S. Carolina) ; Stevenson, Geo/. 

 Surv. Ten: 1871, p. 466 (North Platte River) ; Gray, lland-l. B. 

 iii. p. 47, no. 10288 (1871); Allen, Bull. Harr. Coll. ii. p. 357 

 (1871 : Florida) ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1871, p. 33 

 (Fort Macon, N. Carolina) : id. Key N. Amer. B. p. 247 (1872) ; 

 Allen, Bull. Harr. Coll. iii. p. 171 (1872: Great Salt Lake, 

 breeding); Aiken, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. xv. p. 209 (1872: 

 Arkansas River) ; Sci. # Salt: Nomencl. An. Neotr. p. 144 (1873) ; 

 Merriam, Geol. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 701 (1873: Great Salt Lake) ; 

 Ridgw. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 328 (1874: Lower Wabash 

 Valley); Coues, B. N.-West, p. 460 (1874) ; Hartiny, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 2.33 ; Law,: Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 308 (1874 : Rio de 

 Coabuana ; Mazatlan) ; Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 66 

 (1874: Yellowstone) ; Ridgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 384 (1874: 

 Illinois) ; Rensh. Rep. Zool. Rvpl. 100th Mend. p. 448 (187-",) ; 

 Gundl. J.f. O. 1875, p. 330 (Cuba); id. Om. Cubana, p. 178; 

 Ridgw. Rep. Survey 40th Parallel, p. 605 (1877 : Carson, Nevada; 

 Salt Lake); Sennet t, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 54 (1878: 

 Galveston Bay); Coues, t. c. p. 635 (Milk River, breeding); 

 Kumlien, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 15, p. 84 (1879: Lake 

 Kennedy) ; Maynard, B. East. N. Amer. p. 368 (1879) ; Ridgw. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 201 (1880), iv. p. 219 (1881) ; Belding, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 351 (1882: Lower California) ; Coues, 

 Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 99 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. II. 2nd ed. 

 p. 611 (1884) ; Baird, Brewer, fy Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. 

 i. p. 341 (1884) ; Cory, List B. West Ind. p. 26 (1885) ; Drew, 

 Auk, ii. p. 18 (1885: Colorado); Beckh. i.e. p. 144 (Pueblo); 

 Agersb. t. c. p. 286 (S.E. Dakota) ; Everm. op.cit. iii. p. 91 (1886: 

 Ventura Co., California) ; Scott, t. c. p. 386 (S. Arizona) ; A. O. U. 

 Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 146 (1886) ; Lloyd, Auk, iv. p. 185 (1887 : 

 YV. Texas); Towns. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 163, 198 (1887: 

 N. California) ; Beckh. t. c. p. 642 (S.W. Texas), p. 651 (Corpus 

 Christi Lav) : Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 146 (1887) ; Jeffries, 

 Auk, vi. p. 223 (18S9 : Santa Barbara) : Cory, B. West Ind. p. 232 

 (1889) ; Thomps. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 497 (1890 : Mani- 

 toba ; Winnipeg ; Souris R. ; Plum Creek) ; Merriam, N. Amer. 

 Faun. no. 3, p. 88 (1890), no. 5, p. 91 (1891 : Idaho) ; Fisher, 

 op. cit. no. 7, p. 22 (1893) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. 12 (1892 : Jamaica ) : 

 Attwater, t. c. p. 232 (San Antonio) ; Anthony, t. c. p. 360 (S.W. 

 New Mexico) ; Cory, Cat. B. West Indies, p. 92 (1892 : Greater 

 and Lesser Antilles); Butcher, Auk, x. p. 272 (1893: Long 

 Island). 



Recurvirostra occidentalis, Vigors, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 356 (1829: 

 San Francisco); Wayl. Isis, 1831, p. 520 : Vigors, in Beechey's 

 J'oy. Blossom, p. 28, pi. xii. (ls:?9); Gray 8f Mitchell, Gen. B.'ni. 

 p. 576, pi. 155 (1847) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. eclxxxviii. tigs. 2364- 

 r<r, (1851) : Bp.C. B. xliii. p. 421 (1856). 



Himantopus americana, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 75 (1*85) : id. 

 Geogi: Distr. Charadr. p. 291 (1888). 



Adult malt in breeding-plumage. General colour above black and 

 white, the mantle and scapulars black, the upper mantle white ; 

 wing-coverts black, the greater coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a wing-band; the coverts separated From the black of the 

 back by a bioad hand of white, which occupies the outer scapulars 



