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GENUS HIMANTOPUS Brisson. 
Himantopus Brisson, Orn., V, 1760, 33. Type, by tautonymy, [Himan- 
topus] himantopus Brisson = Charadrius himantopus LINN US. 
Himantopus mexicanus (MULLER). Black-necked Stilt. [226.] 
Charadrius mexicanus Mtuuer, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 117.  (Mex- 
ico.) 
RancEe.— Temperate North America and northern South America. 
Breeds from central Oregon, northern Utah, and southern Colorado 
to southern California, southern New Mexico, southern Texas, coast 
of Louisiana, and in Mexico, and from central Florida and Bahamas 
throughout the West Indies to northern Brazil and Peru; formerly 
bred north to New Jersey; winters from southern Lower California, 
southern Texas, southern Louisiana, and southern Florida south 
through Central America and the West Indies to northern Brazil, 
Peru, and the Galapagos; casual north in migration to Nebraska, 
Wisconsin, and New Brunswick. 
Famity SCOLOPACIDA. Snipes, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 
[Genus SCOLOPAX Linn £vs. 
Scolopax Linnzxvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 145. Type, by subs. 
desig., Scolopax rusticola LiInN=us (Gray, 1840). 
Scdlopax rusticola LINN«us. European Woodcock. [227.] 
Scolopax rusticola LinN=vs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 146. (Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from 
the Arctic Circle to Great Britain, Russia, Siberia, and mountains of 
Europe and Asia, and also in the Azores, Canary, and Madeira islands; 
winters in Great Britain, southern Europe, northern Africa, China, 
and India; occasional in eastern North America from Newfoundland 
to Virginia. ] 
