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parts. In sumPxier the adult is oddly pied above with black, white, 

 brown and chestnut-red, the latter color wanting in winter and in 

 young birds, below from the breast (which is black) white, bill 

 black, feet orange. This is a common bird on both coasts during 

 migrations. 



Recurvirostra aniericana. — Gmel. American Avocet. Blue Stocking. Wliite 

 Snipe. 



A common species of temperate North America, more abundant 

 in the interior than on the coast. Color white, back and wings with 

 much black, head and neck cinnamon-brown in the adult, ashy in 

 the young, bill black, legs blue, eyes red, well-known by its long 

 and slender legs and extremely slender bill which has frequently an 

 upward curve. 



Hintantopus nigricollis . — Vieillot. Stilt. Long Shanks. Lawyer. 



Glossy black above with forehead, sides of head and neck, rump 

 and under parts white, bill black, legs carmine. A common species 

 of the United States, found plentifully in Florida during the winter 

 months, but not very highly prized by sportsmen. 



Steganopus Wihonii. — Coues. Wilson's Phalarope. 



A common North American species found most plentifully in 

 the West, around small pools and sloughs, where they breed in 

 numbers. Color of adult, ashy above, under parts white, a black 

 stripe from the eye down the side of the neck, spreading into rich 

 chestnut, which also variegates the back and throat. The bill is 

 easily distinguished from that of any of our other shore birds, be- 

 ing very slender, acute and awl-shaped. 



Lobipes hyperboreus. — Cuv. Northern Phalarope. 



A more northern species and less known to the gunner. The 

 color is greyish black, back varied with tawny, upper tail coverts 

 and under parts mostly white, side of head and neck with broad 

 stripe of chestnut, the young lacking the chestnut. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. — Bon. Red Phalarope. 



The best known of our three representatives of the family. It 

 is in color, above variegated with ashy and tavv^ny, below purplish- 



