604 OKNITUOLOGT. 



^GIALITIS CANTIANUS. 

 Kcntisli Plover. 



/?. nivosus — Snoivy Plover. 



^giaUtis (Lmcopolius) nivosus, Cassin, iu Bairir.s Birds N. Am., 1858, G96. 



^gialitis nivosits, Baibd, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 18J'J, No. 509. 



^gialiik cantiantis, CouES, Key, 1872, 245 (not of Latham) ; Check Li.st, 1873. 



No. 401. 

 ^gkditis cantiamis var. nivosus, RiDGWAT, Am. Nat., VIII, 1874, 109. — CoUES, 



Check List, App., No. 401. 

 ^giaUtis cantiana var. nivosa, GoUES, Birds N.W., 1874, 456. 



This handsome and graceful little Plover was exceedingly numerous in 

 May on the bare mud-flats around Warm Spring Lake, near Salt Lake 

 City. It kept in flocks, running nimbly and very swiftly over the ground, 

 all the while uttering a soft and rather musical whistling note. 



List of specimens. 



!•(;<», i ad ; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 21, 1.SG9. 7—133. Bill, deep black ; iris, 

 burut sienna; eyelids, deep black; interior of mouth, fleshy white; tarsi, slate color ; 

 toes, black. 



lOLT), ^ af/.; near Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22, 18(59. 7— 13g Bill, deep black ; 

 eyelids, black ; iris, deep brown ; tarsi, dull nilate ; toes, bhick. 



1027, <? ad.; same locality and date. C4 — 13J. Same remarks. 



1028, ? «rf.; same locality and date. (\\ — I2|g. Same remarks. 



1029, <? ad.; same locality and date. Ui — 13. Same remarks. 



1030, (J ad.; same locality and date. 6^ — 14^. Same remarks. 



1031, ? ad.; same locality and date. 6g — 13J. Same remarks. 



Family PHALAEOPODID.^— Phalaeopes. 



Steganopus wilsoni. 



WilNoii's Pli:il:tro|>e. 



Phalaropm wilsoni, Sabink, App. Franklin's Journal, 1823, 091. — Cassin, in 

 Baird's B. N. Am., 1858, 705.— Baied, Gat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 519. 



Phalaro])us (Steganopus) wilsoni, Gray, Iland List, III, 1871,55, No. 10,302. 



ISteganopus icilsoni, CouES, Ibis, April, 1805, — ; Key, 1872, 248, lag. 101 ; Check 

 List, 1873, No. 409; Birds N.W., 1874, 407.— IlENSHAW, 1875, 451. 



This species was shot from a flock of Sandpipers {Tringa alpina ameri- 

 cana, T. miniitiUo, T. hairdi, and Ereunetes pusillus), at Pyramid Lake, in 



