ORDER LIMICOLyE. 83 



SUBGENUS STEGANOPUS VIEILLOT. 



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

 Type, S. tricolor VIEILL. 



224. Fhalaropus tricolor (VIEILL.). 



Wilson's Phalarope. 



Steganopus tricolor VIEILL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 



1819, 136. 

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



[6519, C 409, R 565, C6o2.] 



GEOG. DIST. Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, 

 breeding from northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Sas- 

 katchewan region ; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 



FAMILY RECURVIROSTRID.SJ. AVOCETS AND STILTS. 



GENUS RECURVIROSTRA LINN^US. 



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

 avosetta LINN. 



225. Recurvirostra americana GMEL. 



American Avocet. 



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



[8517, 407, R566, C6oo.] 



GEOG. DIST. Temperate North America, north to the Saskat- 

 chewan and Great Slave Lake ; in winter, south to Guatemala and 

 the West Indies. Rare in the eastern United States. 



GENUS HIMANTOPUS BRISSON. 



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

 topus LINN. 



