LIMICOLAE— PHALAROPODIDAE—STEGANOPUS WILSONI. 451 



number, and, like the preceding, freshly laid. The nest was constructed 

 precisely like that of the Avocet, while the eggs of the two birds are indis- 

 tinguishable, except that those of the Stilt are smaller. 



Dimensions : No. 1, 1.74 by 1.31 ; No. 2, 1.74 by 1.27 ; No. 3, 1.74 by 

 1.27. 



Fam. PHALAEOPODIDAE: Phalaropes. 



STEGANOPUS WILSONI (Sab.). 

 'Wilson's Phalarope. 



Phalaropus wilsoni, Sab., App. Niirr. Fraukliii'.s Journey, 1S2.3, G91.— Bd., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 705.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1862, Hi (Missouri up to 

 Fort nice).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comi). Zool., 1872, 182 (Great Salt Lake).— 

 Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 13.— Meeriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 701. 



Sivganopus irihoni, CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 218, IGl.— Yarrow & Henshaw, 

 Eep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1871, 29.— CouBS, Birds North- 

 west, 1874. 4C7. 



Dr. H C. Yarrow saw numbers of Wilson's Phalarope about Great Salt 

 Lake in July, where also Mr. Allen observed it, and adds that it is stated to 

 breed on the islands in great numbers. It is most Hkely a summer resident 

 on all of the ponds in this region. I have, however, met with it but on a 

 single occasion, at the Cienega in Southeastern Arizona. It was here merely 

 a migrant, and, in company with Baird's and Least Sandpipers, frequented 

 certain little marshy spots, where its actions, as it moved nimbly about in 

 quest of the insects which afford it sustenance, were so much like the Sand- 

 pij)er's that I did not at first, when at a distance, recognize it. They were 

 as tame and unsuspicious as the Peeps, and, when startled, got up with 

 a peet, peet, not a little resembling the familiar notes of those birds. These 



