Analecta Ornithoiogica 
•Leonard Stejneger 
XVI. — On the Oldest Available Name of 
Wilson’s Phalarope. 
The genus Steganopus of Vieillot is usually quoted as having 
been established by that author in 1823 (Enc. M6th., p. 1106). 
It is, however, to be found as early as 1819 in the ‘Nouveau Dic- 
tionnaire d Histoire Naturelle,’ vol. XXXII, where it is properly 
characterized on p. 136. 
An inspection of the same article shows also that the name 
Steganopus tricolor is there applied to Wilson’s Phalarope for 
the first time, consequently four years earlier than Sabine 
described the same bird as Phalaropus wilsoni , as the latter 
name dates only from the year 1823. 
The species, therefore, should stand as 
Lobipes tricolor (Vieill.). Wilson’s Phalarope. 
Auk , I, Got., 1884, P, 36 
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