﻿3o6 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  1 
  5 
  , 
  and 
  November 
  30. 
  Mr 
  Savage 
  records 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  Strawberry 
  island, 
  

   Niagara 
  river, 
  October 
  1892, 
  but 
  no 
  others 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  on 
  our 
  inland 
  

   waters, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know, 
  although 
  western 
  New 
  York 
  lies 
  nearer 
  than 
  Long 
  

   Island 
  to 
  the 
  usual 
  migration 
  route 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  

  

  Micropalama 
  himantopus 
  (Bonaparte) 
  

   Stilt 
  Sandpiper 
  

  

  Plater, 
  3,^, 
  34 
  

  

  Tringa 
  himantopus 
  Bonaparte. 
  Ann. 
  Lye. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1826. 
  2:157 
  

   Hemipalma 
  himantopus 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  235, 
  fig. 
  196 
  

   Micropalama 
  himantopus 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  -^o- 
  ^33 
  

  

  micropa'lama, 
  Gr. 
  ficKpo'i, 
  s'mall, 
  TruXd/j.7), 
  a 
  web; 
  himan'topus, 
  Gr. 
  vixavTOTrov: 
  , 
  

  

  strap-legged, 
  or 
  crook-shanked 
  

  

  Description. 
  Legs 
  long 
  and 
  slender; 
  toes 
  webbed 
  at 
  base; 
  bill 
  long, 
  

   slender, 
  slightly 
  curved. 
  Summer: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  black, 
  margined 
  and 
  streaked 
  

   with 
  grayish 
  and 
  buff 
  y 
  or 
  rufous 
  ; 
  upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  barred 
  with 
  white 
  and 
  

   dusky; 
  tail 
  mingled 
  white 
  and 
  ashy; 
  wings 
  grayish, 
  primaries 
  changing 
  to 
  

   fuscous 
  and 
  the 
  secondaries 
  edged 
  with 
  white; 
  ear 
  coverts 
  and 
  the 
  side 
  and 
  

   rear 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  crown 
  rufous; 
  under 
  parts 
  white, 
  often 
  washed 
  with 
  red- 
  

   dish, 
  extensively 
  barred 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  bill 
  and 
  legs 
  dusky 
  greenish. 
  Winter: 
  

   Upper 
  parts 
  ashy 
  gra)^ 
  sometimes 
  with 
  traces 
  of 
  black 
  and 
  buff; 
  under 
  

   parts 
  white, 
  indistinctly 
  streaked 
  on 
  the 
  neck 
  and 
  breast 
  with 
  dusky 
  and 
  

   barred 
  wth 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  sides; 
  tail 
  and 
  its 
  upper 
  coverts 
  white, 
  the 
  former 
  

   margined 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  barred 
  with 
  ashy. 
  Young: 
  Similar, 
  the 
  upper 
  

   parts 
  usuall}^ 
  dusky 
  margined 
  with 
  buffy 
  white; 
  legs 
  greenish 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-9 
  inches; 
  extent 
  16-17; 
  wing 
  5-5.25; 
  tail 
  2.25; 
  bill 
  i. 
  5-1.75; 
  

   tarsus 
  1. 
  6-1.7 
  5; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  i 
  ; 
  tibia 
  bare 
  i. 
  

  

  The 
  Stilt 
  sandpiper 
  inhabits 
  eastern 
  America, 
  breeding 
  in 
  the 
  arctic 
  

   regions 
  and 
  migrating 
  in 
  winter 
  to 
  the 
  West 
  Indies 
  and 
  South 
  America. 
  

   In 
  New 
  York 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  as 
  rare 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  generally 
  supposed, 
  

   probabl}' 
  being 
  overlooked 
  by 
  gunners 
  from 
  its 
  resemblance 
  in 
  fall 
  to 
  the 
  

   Yellow-legs. 
  Lawrence 
  [N. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Bui. 
  3:148] 
  mentions 
  it 
  as 
  common 
  on 
  

   the 
  south 
  side 
  of 
  Long 
  Island 
  from 
  J-aly 
  to 
  September. 
  Mr 
  Butcher's 
  Long 
  

   Island 
  Notes 
  record 
  about 
  150 
  specimens 
  shot 
  between 
  1882 
  and 
  1893 
  and 
  

   many 
  others 
  seen, 
  often 
  in 
  flocks 
  ranging 
  from 
  1 
  1-60 
  individuals, 
  the 
  dates 
  

   ranging 
  from 
  Jul\- 
  12 
  to 
  October 
  10. 
  In 
  the 
  spring 
  it 
  is 
  less 
  common, 
  or 
  

  

  