ORDER LIMICOL^. 83 



Subgenus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 



Stegajiopus Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 1819, 136. 

 Type, S. tricolor Vieill. 



224. Fhalaropus tricolor (Vieill.). 



Wilson's Phalarope. 



Steganopus tricolor Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 



1819, 136. 

 Fhalaropus tricolor Stejn. Auk, II. 1885, 183. 



[B 519, C409, R 565, C 602.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, 

 breeding from northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Sas- 

 katchewan region ; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 



Family RECURVIROSTRED-EI. Avocets and Stilts. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA Linnaeus. 



Recurvirostra Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 151. Type, R, 

 avosetta Linn. 



225. Recurvirostra americana Gjmel. 



American Avocet. 



Recurvirostra americana QwEi.. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 693. 

 [B517, C407, R 566, C 600.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Temperate North America, north to the Saskat- 

 chewan and Great Slave Lake ; in winter, south to Guatemala and 

 the West Indies. Rare in the eastern United States. 



Genus HIMANTOPUS Brisson. 



Himantopus Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 33. Type, Charadrius himan- 

 topus Linn. 



