﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  293 
  

  

  ash, 
  paler 
  on 
  the 
  rump; 
  upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  and 
  tail 
  marbled 
  white 
  and 
  

   grayish; 
  under 
  parts 
  white, 
  the 
  foreneck 
  and 
  breast 
  washed 
  with 
  vinaceous 
  

   buff 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  flushed 
  with 
  the 
  same; 
  bill 
  and 
  feet 
  black; 
  eyes 
  brown. 
  

   Male: 
  Smaller; 
  color 
  pattern 
  similar, 
  but 
  much 
  duller 
  than 
  female, 
  and 
  

   browner 
  above. 
  Winter 
  plumage: 
  Above 
  light 
  grayish, 
  the 
  feathers 
  

   edged 
  narrowly 
  Avith 
  whitish 
  ; 
  some 
  scattered 
  blackish 
  feathers 
  ; 
  lores, 
  stripe 
  

   on 
  side 
  of 
  head, 
  and 
  whole 
  under 
  parts 
  white. 
  Young 
  before 
  the 
  winter 
  

   molt: 
  Up|3er 
  parts 
  brownish 
  black, 
  the 
  feathers 
  margined 
  with 
  a 
  rusty 
  

   brown, 
  resembling 
  a 
  Pectoral 
  sandpiper; 
  line 
  over 
  eye, 
  upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  

   and 
  under 
  parts 
  white, 
  the 
  breast 
  tinged 
  wnth 
  rusty; 
  feet 
  yellowish. 
  

  

  Length 
  8.25-9.5 
  inches; 
  extent 
  15-16; 
  wing 
  4.75-5.32; 
  tail 
  2.25; 
  tarsus 
  

   1.33; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  1.12; 
  bill 
  1.33. 
  Smaller 
  dimensions 
  are 
  of 
  males. 
  

   Young: 
  Bill 
  i.i; 
  tarsus 
  1.2. 
  

  

  The 
  Wilson 
  phalarope 
  is 
  a 
  nearctic 
  species, 
  inhabiting 
  the 
  interior 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  Canada 
  north 
  to 
  the 
  Saskatchewan 
  and 
  Hudson 
  

  

  bay, 
  and 
  wintering 
  from 
  Texas 
  to 
  Patagonia. 
  New 
  York 
  lies 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  normal 
  migration 
  route 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  and 
  it 
  occurs 
  only 
  as 
  an 
  occasional 
  

  

  transient 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Buffalo, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Very 
  rare. 
  DeKay, 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  2: 
  270 
  

  

  Long 
  Island. 
  Few 
  occur. 
  Giraud, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Long 
  Island. 
  1844. 
  p. 
  247 
  

  

  South 
  Bay, 
  L. 
  I. 
  L. 
  I. 
  Hist. 
  Soc. 
  Col. 
  (3 
  specimens) 
  

  

  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Oct. 
  3, 
  1872. 
  Lawrence, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  10: 
  235 
  

  

  Long 
  Island, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  10, 
  1874. 
  N. 
  T. 
  Lawrence, 
  Auk, 
  2: 
  273 
  

  

  Penn 
  Yan, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  (Gilbert). 
  Birds 
  Cent. 
  N. 
  Y., 
  p. 
  30 
  

  

  East 
  river, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  15, 
  1879. 
  N. 
  T. 
  Lawrence, 
  Auk, 
  2; 
  273 
  

  

  Murray, 
  Orleans 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Sept. 
  1882. 
  David 
  Bruce 
  

  

  Sliinnecock 
  bay, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  20, 
  1883. 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  i: 
  33 
  

  

  Oneida 
  Lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  6. 
  1883. 
  (Barnum). 
  Ralph 
  & 
  Bagg 
  List, 
  112 
  

  

  Western 
  New 
  York. 
  Oc. 
  in 
  fall. 
  Langille, 
  Our 
  Birds 
  in 
  their 
  Haunts. 
  1884 
  

  

  Atlanticville, 
  Suffolk 
  co. 
  About 
  Aug. 
  15, 
  1885. 
  (G. 
  W. 
  Howell). 
  Auk, 
  3: 
  436 
  

  

  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Sept. 
  2, 
  1886. 
  C. 
  P. 
  Moxon 
  

  

  Moriches, 
  L. 
  I. 
  June 
  i, 
  1887. 
  Lawrence 
  Collection, 
  3247 
  

  

  Shinnecock 
  bay, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  13, 
  15, 
  1887. 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  5: 
  177 
  

  

  Carmel, 
  Putnam 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  About 
  1890. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Mead 
  

  

  Seaford, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Fall 
  1890. 
  (Wilson). 
  Dutcher, 
  Long 
  Island 
  Notes 
  

  

  Ithaca, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Fall 
  1892. 
  Juvenal. 
  L. 
  A. 
  Fuertes 
  Collection 
  

  

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  Avocets 
  

  

  Bill 
  lengthened, 
  flattened, 
  recurved 
  and 
  much 
  attenuated 
  and 
  acute; 
  

   legs 
  very 
  long, 
  with 
  hexagonal 
  plates 
  ; 
  front 
  toes 
  webbed 
  ; 
  hind 
  toes 
  short 
  and 
  

   free 
  ; 
  plumage 
  thick 
  and 
  ducklike 
  ; 
  wings 
  rather 
  short 
  ; 
  tail 
  short 
  and 
  square. 
  

  

  