146 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



224. Phalaropus tricolor (VIEILL.). 



Wilson's Phalarope. 



Steganopus tricolor VIEILL. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 1819, 136. 

 Phalaropus tricolor STEJN. Auk, II. 1885, 183. 



[B 5 i 9 , C 409, R 565, C 602.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, breeding 

 from Northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Saskatchewan re- 

 gion ; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 



FAMILY RECUR VIROSTRIDJE. AVOCETS AND STILTS. 



GENUS RECURVIROSTRA LINNAEUS. 



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

 LINN. 



225. Recurvirostra americana GM. 



American Avocet. 



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

 [B 5 17, C 407, R566, C6oo.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, from the Saskatchewan and 

 Great Slave Lake southward ; in winter, south to Guatemala and the 

 West Indies. Rare in the Eastern Province. 



GENUS HIMANTOFUS BRISSON. 



Himantopus BRISS. Orn. VI. 1760, 33. Type, Charadrius himanto- 

 pus LINN. 



226. Himantopus mexicanus (MULL.). 



Black-necked Stilt. 



Charadrius mexicanus MULL. S. N. Suppl. 1776, 117. 

 Himantopus mexicanus ORD, WILS. Orn. VII. 1824, 52. 



[B 518, C 408, R 567, C 601.] 



HAB. Temperate North America, from the Northern United States 

 southward to the West Indies, Brazil, and Peru. Rare in the Eastern 

 Province, except in Florida. 



