THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 119 



Tuckerton i 1 one shot by D. N. McCadden at Stone Harbor Septem- 

 ber 4th, 1903 ; 2 one procured by H. Bergen May 22d, 1896, at Cran- 

 bury, near Princeton, 3 one in the Turnbull collection labeled N. J. 

 without date. 



224 Steganopus tricolor Vieillot. 

 Wilson's Phalarope. 



Adults in spring. Length, 8.50-10. Wing, 4.75-5.25. Above, blue-gray, 

 with several longitudinal bands of chestnut; head, pearl-gray, becoming white 

 on the nape ; a broad black band down each side of the neck from the bill to 

 the sides of the breast, which are chestnut; lower parts, white; lower throat 

 tinged with cinnamon. 



Adults in autumn. Dull gray above, white below. 



Young in first autumn. Upper parts, dusky, edged with buff ; below, white ; 

 throat tinged with cinnamon. 



A rare straggler from the interior of North America. 



Ord records a specimen of Wilson's Phalarope shot near Philadel- 

 phia May 7th, 1818, and prepared for Peale's museum. 4 Audubon 

 was informed that they bred in New Jersey by a person who showed 

 him the skins of two specimens procured in July near Cape May, and 

 assured him that he shot them near their nest, and that they had 

 four eggs. There is no other evidence that the species ever bred on 

 the Atlantic coast and it would seem probable that his informant was 

 not reliable. 



Dr. Abbott (1868) records two captures one at Deal Beach, the 

 other at Atlantic City. 



More recently there are two records a specimen shot at Ocean City, 

 May 19th, 1898, by Mr. Gilbert H. Moore, 5 and two shot from a small 

 flock at Cape May, May 4th, 1909, one of which was shown to me by 

 Mr. H. Walker Hand. 



1 Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., II., p. 18. 



2 Cassinia, 1903, p. 76. 



3 Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 41. 



4 Ord's Reprint of Wilson, X., p. 234. 



5 Coll. D. V. O. C. Cf. Auk, 1898, p. 268. 



