BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



293 



ash, paler on the rump; upper tail coverts and tail marbled white and 

 grayish; under parts white, the foreneck and breast washed with vinaceous 

 buff and the sides flushed with the same; bill and feet black; eyes brown. 

 Male: Smaller; color pattern similar, but much duller than female, and 

 browner above. Winter plumage: Above light grayish, the feathers 

 edged narrowly with whitisli; some scattered blackish feathers; lores, stripe 

 on side of head, and whole under parts white. Young before the ivintcr 

 molt: Ui)per parts V)rownish black, the feathers margined with a rustv 

 brown, resembling a Pectoral sand]5i])er; line over eve, upper tail coverts 

 and under parts white, the breast tinged with rusty; feet vellowish. 



Length 8.25-9.5 inches; extent 15-16; wing 4.75-5.32; tail 2.25; tarsus 

 1.33; middle toe and claw 1.12; bill 1.33. Smaller diniemsions are of males. 

 Young: Bill i.i; tarsus r.2. 



The Vv'ilson phalarope is a nearctic species, inhabiting the interior 

 of the United States and Canada north to the Saskatchewan and Hudson 

 ba\', and wintering from Texas to Patagonia. New York lies out of the 

 normal migration route of this species and it occurs onlv as an occasional 

 transient as follows: 



Buffalo, N. Y. Yen- rare. Delvay, Zool. X. Y. 1844. 2: 270 



Long Island. Few occur. Giraud. Birds of Long Island. 1S44. p. 247 



South Bay, L. L L. L Hist. Soc. Col. (3 specimens) 



Rockaway, L. L Oct. 3, 1872. Lawrence, Forest and Stream, 10: 235 



Long Island, X. Y. Oct. 10, 1874. X. T. Lawrence, Auk, 2: 273 



Pcnn Yan, X. Y. (Gilbert). Birds Cent. X. Y., p. 30 



East river, X. Y. Oct. 15, 1879. X. T. Lawrence, Auk, 2: 273 



Murray, Orleans co., X. Y. Sept. 1882. David Bruce 



Shinnccock bav, L. I. Aug. 20, 1083. Butcher, Auk, i: ^;^ 



Oneida Lake, X. Y. Oct. 6. 1S83. (Barnum). Ralph Cc Bagg List, 112 



Western Xew York. Oc. in fall. Langille, Our Birds in their Haunts. :884 



Atlanticville, Suffolk co. About Aug. 15, 1885. (G. W. Howell). Auk, 3: 436 



Onondaga lake, X. Y. Sept. 2, 1886. C. P. :\Ioxon 



Moriches, L. I. June i, 1887. Lawrence Collection, 3247 



Shinnecock bay, L. I. Seyjt. 13, 15, 18S7. Butcher, Auk, 5: 177 



Carmel, Putnam CO., N. Y. About 1890. W. A. Mead 



Scaford, L. I. Fall 1890. (Wilson). Butcher, Long Island Xotes 



Ithaca, X. Y. Fall 1892. Juvenal. L. -V. Fuertes Collection 



Family peECUKVIROSTKID^E 



Avoceis 



Bill lengthened, flattened, recurved and much attenuated and acute; 

 legs ver\- long, with hexagonal plates; front toes webbed ; hind toes short and 

 free; ])lumagc thick and dueklike; wings rather short ; tail short and square. 



