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Center Moriches, L. I. Aug. 20, 1879. Robert Lawrence, N. O. C. Bui. 5: 117 

 Flushing, L. I. Sept. 29, 1879. (C. A. Willets). Lawrence, N. O. C. BuL 5: 117; 



Auk, 6: 135 

 Troy, N. Y. Sept. 4, 1881. T. B. Heimstreet 

 Westmoreland, X. Y. Early spring 1881. Bagg 



Near Albany, N. Y. May 19, 1883. N. 0. C. Bui. 8: 180, G. A. Lintner 

 South Oyster Bay, L. L May 24, 1883. Butcher, Auk, i: 33 

 Fire Island Light, L. L May 19, 1884. Butcher, Auk, 3: 36 

 Onondaga lake, Syracuse, N.Y. Sept. 2, 4, 25, 1886. Green, Auk, 4: 73 

 Montauk Point Light, L. L Sept. 3, 1886. Butcher, N. O. C. Bui. 5: 117; Auk, 6: 135 

 " May 5, 1888. 2?. " " " 



May 29, 1888. 3C?. " " " 



Aug. 13, 1888. 2. " " « 



Oct. 22, 1888. a'. " " " 



Buffalo, N. Y. Oct. i, 1889; Sept. 1894. James Savage 

 Oneida Lake, N. Y. Sept. 21, 1889. Egbert Bagg 



Thomasville Mills, Lake Ontario, Orleans co. Sept. 19, 1891. Bavid Bruce 

 Montauk Point, L. I. May 1890. 0^. (Scott). Butcher 

 May 22, 1892. 9. " 

 " Aug. 26, 1892. (8). " 



Mays, 1894. 9. " 

 June 3, 1894. 

 Aug. 27, 1894. (2). " 

 Keuka lake, N. Y. May 16, 1895. <^ ■ C. F. Stone 

 Cayuga marshes, N. Y. May. About 1895. d^, 9. (Parker). E. H. Eaton Collection 



Steganopus tricolor Vieillot 

 Wilson Phalarope 



Plate 30 



Steganopus tricolor Vieillot. Nouv. Bict. d' Hist. Nat. 1819. 32:136 

 Holopodius wilsoni BeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 270, fig. 201-2 

 Phalaropus tricolor A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 224 



stega'nopus, Gr. a-Teyavoirov^, webfoot; tri' color, Lat. tres, tria, three, 



and color, color 



Description. Bill long, equaling tarsus, depressed, very slender, acute ; 

 legs long; tibia bare some distance; toes long, slender, fringed broadly and 

 almost evenly. Female in summer: Lores, front and crown light ash 

 turning to white on the back of the neck; throat, line over the eye and 

 eyelids white ; a velvety black hand extending from the region of the eye halfway 

 down the sides of the neck, then giving way to rich purplish chestnut or wine- 

 red which continues down the sides of the back in narrowing stripes; a 

 stripe of the same color on the scapulars; upper parts in general bluish 



