ORDER LIMICOLE. 83 
SusGENus STEGANOPUS VIEILLOT. 
Steganopus ViIEILL. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXXII. 1819, 136. 
Type, S. ¢rzcolor VIEILL. 
224, Phalaropus tricolor (VIE£ILL.). 
Wilson’s Phalarope. 
Steganopus tricolor ViEtLu. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXXII. 
1819, 136. 
Phalaropus tricolor STEJN. Auk, II. 1885, 183. 
[B 519, C 409, R 565, C 602.] 
Groc. Dist.— Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, 
breeding from northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Sas- 
katchewan region ; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 
FamMity RECURVIROSTRIDZ. Avocets anp STILTs. 
Genus RECURVIROSTRA Linneus. 
Memrorosira) Vann. S.No ed.) co, I. 1758, \r51. | Type, ze 
avosetta LINN. 
225. Recurvirostra americana GMEL. 
American Avocet. 
Recurvirostra americana GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 693. 
[B 517, C 407, R566, C 600.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Temperate North America, north to the Saskat- 
chewan and Great Slave Lake; in winter, south to Guatemala and 
the West Indies. Rare in the eastern United States. 
Genus HIMANTOPUS Brisson. 
fimantopus Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 33. Type, Charadrius himan- 
topus LINN. 
