146 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN 131RDS. 



224. Fhalaropus tricolor (Vieill.). 



Wilson's Phularopc. 



Steganopus tricolor VvsA\A.. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII. 1819. 136. 

 Phalaropus tricolor Stejn. Auk, II. 18S5, 183. 



[B 519, C 409, R 565, C 602.] 



Hab. Temperate North America, chiefly the interior, breeding 

 from Northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Saskatchewan re- 

 gion j south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. 



Family RECURVIROSTRID-ffi. Avocets and Stilts. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA Linn/EUS. 



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

 Linn. 



225. Recurvirostra americana Gm. 



Aniericau Avocet. 



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



[B 517, C 407, R 566, C 600.] 



Hab. Temperate North America, from the Saskatchewan and 

 Great Slave Lake southward \ in winter, south to Guatemala and the 

 West Indies. Rare in the Eastern Province. 



Genus HIMANTOFUS Brisson. 



Himantopus Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 33. Type, Charadrius hitnanto- 

 pus Linn. 



22G. Himantopus mexicanus (Mull.). 



Black-necked Stilt. 



Charadrius mexicanus Mull. S. N. Suppl. 1776, 117. 

 Himantopus mexicanus Ord, Wils. Orn. VII. 1824, 52. 



[B 518, C 408, R 567, C 601.] 



Hab. Temperate North America, from the Northern United States 

 southward to the West Indies, Brazil, and Peru. Rare in the Eastern 

 Province, except in Florida. 



