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The Limicolse are all birds of small or medium size, frequenting sandy 

 shores and the mud flats of marshes ; the Woodcock alone being- found in 

 the woods. , 



Family PHALAROPODID^. 



Small sandpiper-like birds, with the toes lobed, as in the Coots and 

 Grebes, but the lobes narrower. Body depressed, the lower plumage 

 thick as in the ducks, and capable of resisting water; wings long, tail 

 short; tarsus much compressed. 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS. 



(222) Red Phalarope. 



(Crymophilus fulicarius.) 

 An irregular spring and autumn visitor of rare occurrence. 



Genus PHALAROPUS. 



(223) Northern Phalarope. 



(Phalaropus lobatus.) 

 An irregular spring and autumn visitor of rare occurrence. 



Genus STEGANOPUS. 



(224) Wilson's Phalarope. 



(Steganopus tricolor.) 



An irregular spring and autumn visitor, but ratiier more frequently 

 met with than either of the preceding Phalaropes. 



Family RECURVIROSTRID^. 



Birds with excessively long legs and the bill very slender, long, 

 acute, and in our species curved upward. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA. 



{*) (225) Avocet. 



(Recurvirostra americana.) 



An accidental visitor from the prairies of the North- West, where it 

 is common. 



Family SCOLOPACID^. (Snipes, Sandpipers, etc.) 



Bill elongated, usually longer than head, if short not Plover-like, 

 being soft-skinned throughout ; nasal grooves in the form of narrow 



