FAMILY RECURVIROSTRID.E 



the chest and breast, the under parts being 

 mostly white. 



A migrant, found along the sea shore, both on 

 beaches and in rocky places, usually singly or in 

 small groups, and often in association with other 

 shore birds. It has a single sharp note often very 

 rapidly repeated and blended into a prolonged 

 call. Hallinan records it from Naos, Venado and 

 Cocori Islands in May. Noted at Patillo Point 

 in April, 1926. 



12. Family RECURVIRO STRIDE 



The Avocets and Stilts 



This family, represented in the Canal Zone 

 by a single species, is a small one, including 

 only three genera and less than a dozen 

 species, but is quite widely distributed. 

 They are slender, very long-legged birds with 

 a long narrow bill which is either straight or 

 more or less turned upward. 



I. Himantopus mexicanus (P. S. L. Miiller) 

 Black-necked Stilt 



Length, 381 mm. (15.00 in.); tail, 71 mm. 

 (2.80 in.). 



Male. Top of head, back of neck and much 

 of upper parts glossy greenish black, the lower 

 back and rump white ; tail pale gray ; a spot above 

 and one below the eye, the forehead and entire 

 under parts immaculate white. Bill black, and 

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