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been reported from the Galapagos. We saw the birds several times 

 in that vicinity. 



Family RECURVIROSTRIDiE. 



Genus Himantopus Brisson. 



Himantoptis Brisson, Ornithologist, vi, p. 33, 1760. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan (littoral). Galapagos Archipelago. 



32. HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS (Miiller). 



Charadrius mexicajius Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. , p. 117, 1776. 

 Himantopus mexicanus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 633, 1896 



(Galapagos). — Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 189, 



1899. 



Range. — South temperate and tropical America. Galapagos 

 Archipelago. 



This bird is rather rare about the archipelago. They seem to pre- 

 fer lakes and ponds of quiet water rather than the ocean beaches and 

 rocks along the shore. We observed them about the lake in the 

 crater a short distance south of Tagus Cove, Albemarle, on the ponds 

 back of the beach at James Bay, James Island, about similar ponds 

 on the west side of the southern Seymour Island, and at a lake on the 

 upper part of Hood. 



Family SCOLOPACID.S;. 



Genus Tringa Linnaeus. 

 Tringa LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 148, 1758. 



Range. — Arctic and subarctic during the breeding season, cosmo- 

 politan during migrations. Galapagos Archipelago. 



33. TRINGA BAIRDII (Coues). 



Aciodromas bairdii QoveSy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 194, 1861. 

 Heteropygia bairdi Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., xix, p. 188, 

 1899 (Galapagos). 



Range. — Breeding in Alaska, migrating south to the interior of 

 North America and west coast.of South America. Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago. 



Rothschild and Hartert report the only specimen of this species 

 known from the Galapagos Archipelago, as taken by the Harris expe- 

 dition on Barrington in October. 



34. TRINGA MINUTILLA VieiUot. 



Tringa miKutilla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet., xxxiv, p. 452, 1819. — Sclater 

 AND Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 323, 1870 (Galapagos). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 631, 1896. — Rothschild and 

 Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 188, 1899. 



