604 ORNITUOLOGY. 



^GIALITIS CANTIANUS. 

 Kciitisli Plover. 



f3. nivosiis — Snoivy Plover. 



^gialitis fLeucopoKiisJ nivosus, Oassin, iu Baird's Birds N. Am., 1858, G96. 



JEgialiiin nicosus, Baird, Gat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 509. 



^gialitis cantianus, CouES, Key, 1872, 245 (not of Latham); Check List, 1873, 



No. 401. 

 JSgialitis cantianus var. nivosus, Ridgway, Am. Nat, VIII, 1874, 109. — CouES, 



Obeck List, App., No. 401. 

 ^gialitis cantiana var. nivosa, Goues, Birds N.W., 1874, 450. 



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. 

 Lint ofnpecimens. 



909, $ ad ; Salt Lake Gity, Utah, May 21, 1809. 7—133. Bill, deep black ; iris, 

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

 toes, black. 



1020, (? ad.; near Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22, 1809. 7— 13| Bill, deep black ; 

 eyelids, black; iris, deep brown; tarsi, dull slate; toes, black. 



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



1028, ? ad.; same locality and date. GJ — 12if. Same I'emarks. 



1029, S ad.; .same locality and date. O.i — 13. Same remarks. 



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



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



Family PHALAROPODIDJ]— Phalaeopes. 



Steganopus wilsoni. 



Wilson's Plialiti'0|te. 



Fhalaropm ivilnoni, Sabink, App. Franklin's Journal, 1823, 091. — Cassin, in 

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



Phalaropus (Sleganopus) icilsoni, Gray, Hand List, III, 1871,55, No. 10,302. 



Steganopus wilsoni, CouES, Ibis, April, 18G5, — ; Key, 1872, 248, dg. 101; Check 

 List, 1873, No. 409; Birds N.W., 1874, 467.— FlENSHAW, 1875, 451. 



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

 cana, T. minutiUa, T. bairdi, and Ereunetes imsillus), at Pyramid Lake, in 



