DIRECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 63 



folded not reaching end of tail. Colors, black, white, and 

 reddish. Sexes, similar. 



1. AMERICAN AYOCET, R. AMERICANA. 17.00 ; head, 

 neck, and chest, light cinna- Fig. 81. 



mon ; wings and two broad 

 stripes on back, brownish-black ;, 

 tail, ashy; white elsewhere, fig. 

 81. In winter, head, neck, and 

 chest, white tinged with bluish. 

 Swims well and frequently 

 alights on the water. Cries, 

 harsh and continuous. Breeds 

 in the interior west of the Miss- 

 issippi River, from Kansas north 

 to the Saskatchewan and Greatj 

 Slave Lake ; exceedingly rare in 

 Eastern U. S. ; winters south to! 

 Guatemala. 



b. Stilts. Himantopus. 



Bill, not flattened, slender 



Fig. 82. 



G, B, a, 1. 1-4, 



, B, b, 1. 1-4. 



and nearly straight ; toes, three, 

 webbed at base only ; wings, 

 long, when folded reaching be- 

 yond end of tail, fig. 82, colors, 

 black and white. Sexes, dis- 

 similar. 



1. BLACK-NECKED STILT, 

 H. MEXICANUS. 14.00 ; m a 1 e , 

 top and sides of head below eye, 

 back of neck, middle of back, 

 and wings, glossy, greenish- 

 black ; tail gray ; spot behind 

 eye and parts not mentioned, 

 white ; bill, black : iris, red ; 

 feet and legs, carmine, fig. 82. 

 The female differs in having the 

 back slaty-brown and the other 



