. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ck and blue legs, adds to thesingularity of its appearance. The color of the legssuggests the ludicrous name of blue-stocking, some-times applied ; but the bird differs from those creaturesof our own species which have been so nicknamed, inbeing harmless, interesting and instructive. The Avocet is irregularly distributed over nearly allof temperate North America, from one ocean to theother, and from rather high latitudes in British Americato Mexico and the Gulf. Still, there are large tracts of RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA: AMERI
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ck and blue legs, adds to thesingularity of its appearance. The color of the legssuggests the ludicrous name of blue-stocking, some-times applied ; but the bird differs from those creaturesof our own species which have been so nicknamed, inbeing harmless, interesting and instructive. The Avocet is irregularly distributed over nearly allof temperate North America, from one ocean to theother, and from rather high latitudes in British Americato Mexico and the Gulf. Still, there are large tracts of RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA: AMERICAN AVOCET. l8l country seldom visited, and New England is one ofthese. Here the bird is little more than a straggler,though not rare further South on the Atlantic coast. Itthus becomes necessary to examine the records for casesof its occurrence among us. The record left by the Rev. Mr. Linsley is discred-ited by Mr, Merriam (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 146) asresting upon insufficient evidence. But Mr. Merriam isable to furnish an authentic instance of the presence of. Fig. 4:. — Head and Leg of Avocet. Reduced. the bird in Connecticut, one of his correspondents, G. Ely, writing to him, that a specimen was found in1871, between Saybrook and East Lyme, in an old seinestrung out on the beach to dry (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, ). Dr. Brewer states this to be the only instanceof its capture within our limits that is on record, all theothers having been extra-limital or without particulars (Pr. Bost. Soc, xix, 1878, p. 307). Mr. G. A. Board-man had indeed noted some years before (Pr. Bost. Soc,ix, 1862, p. 128), the capture of a specimen in Maine,but this turned out to have been taken in New Bruns-wick. In 1875, therefore. Dr. Brewer removed thespecies from the New England List, with the followingcomments : This has been placed among the Birds of I 82 RECURVIROSTRID^ : AVOCETS : STILTS. New England by Prof. Verrill and Dr. Coues, on thestrength of a single specimen said to have
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