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HIMANT0PF8. 



Geographi- j|. ij^geds in North America, as far north as the Great Slave Lake, and as far south as 



cai distribu- 

 tion. Texas. To the northern portion of its range it is only a summer visitor, wintering in 



Central America and the West Indies. Like its congeners it prefers the sandbanks near 



the shores of the sea, or the margins of salt lakes. 



HIMANTOPUS RUBRICOLLIS. 



AU8TBALIAN AVOCET. 



Diagnosis. Himantopus secundariarum pogoniis ambobus albis : scapularibus albo ornatis : remigibus tertii 

 ordinis baud albo ornatis. 



Variations. Nq local races of this species are known. Examples from New Zealand do not differ from 

 those from Australia. 



Synonymy. 



Recurvirostra novae-bollandiae, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 103 (1816) . 

 Recurvirostra rubricollis, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 592 (1820). 

 Avocetta novae-zealandiBe, Ellman, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7470. 

 Himantopus novae-hoUandise {Vieill.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 75 (1885). 

 Himantopus rubricoUis {Temm.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p, 229. 



