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the vicinity — a circular structure, and in some cases quite deep and bulky. Eggs, 

 usually eight to ten; 1.73 x 1.24; buff white, thinly spotted and splashed with vary- 

 ing shades of reddish brown; in form oval. One set of thirteen, collected May 

 25th, 1878, on a bog in Pewaukee lake, Wisconsin, measure as follows: 1.63x1.18; 

 1.84x1.27; 1.67x1.18; 1.60x1.16; 1.67x1.18; 1.78x1.30; 1.81x1.29; 1.79x1.29; 1.88x 

 1.27; 1.70x1.16; 1.80x1.30; 1.75x1.18; 1.80x1.28. 



Subfamily FULICIN>^. Coots. 



Genus FULICA Linn^us. 



B. 559. R. 580. C. 686. G. 271. U. 221. 

 68. Fulica americana Gmel. American Coot. Summer resident; not uncom- 

 mon; during migration abundant. Arrive the first to middle of April. Begin 

 laying the last of May. Nest in the tall weeds and rushes growing in shallow, 

 muddy places in ponds and sloughs; built on the tops of the broken-down old 

 growth that forms a platform just above the water; quite a deep, hollow nest, 

 composed of short, bitten-off stems of the weeds and rushes. Eggs, usually 

 eight or nine — I have seen eleven in a nest; 1.92x1.32; cream white, in some 

 cases pale olive drab, thickly and evenly specked with dark brown; in form oval- 



Order LIMICOL^. Shore Birds. 



Family PHALAROPODID^. Phalaropes. 

 Genus PHALAROPUS Bkisson. 



Subgenus PHALAROPUS. 



B. 520. R. 564. C. 603. G. 264. U. 223. 



69. Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.). Northern Phalarope. Migratory; rare. Ar- 

 rive about the middle to last of May. 



Subgenus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 



B. 519. R. 565. C. 602. G. 265. U. 224. 



70. Phalaropus tricolor (Vieill.). Wilson's Phalarope. Migratory; common. 

 Arrive the last of April to fii'st of May. June 3d, 1885, 1 saw a small flock at the 

 edge of a marshy pond in Meade county, and I feel quite confident that they 

 occasionally breed in the western part of the State. 



Family RECUR VIROSTRID^. Avocets and Stilts. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA Linn^us. 



B. 517. R. 566. C. 600. G. 266. U. 225. 



71. Recurvirostra americana Gm. American Avocet. Summer resident in 

 western Kansas; rare; during migration common throughout the State. Arrive 



