In Coahuila the Killdeer seems to be uncommon. Van Tyne and Sutton
(1937:28) remarked that it nested in Brewster County, Texas. The
species probably nests in northern Coahuila as well; the lengths of the
testes (left, 9 mm.; right, 4 mm.) of No. 31023 support this view.
_Eupoda montana_ (Townsend).--Pitelka (1948:118) recorded one female
Mountain Plover from Hipolito on February 23. Van Tyne and Sutton
(1937:28) reported that the Mountain Plover nested in Brewster County,
Texas. Possibly _Eupoda montana_ nests in northern Coahuila as well.
_Numenius americanus parvus_ Bishop.--_Specimens examined:_ total 3:
[Male] 31434 and [Female] 35406 (skeleton only) from 8 mi. E, 2 mi. S
Americanos, May 19, 1954, measurements: wing, 250, 258 mm.; tail, 96,
100 mm.; tarsus, 74, 81.5 mm.; culmen, 11.2, 16.5 mm.; [Male] gonad,
6x2 mm.; and [Female] 35400 (skeleton only) from 7 mi. W San Antonio de
las Alazanas, January 11, 1954.
The Long-billed Curlew is not common in Coahuila. Dickerman obtained
both the specimens from 8 mi. E and 2 mi. S Americanos out of a flock
of 35. Sutton and Burleigh (1939a:28) noted the Long-billed Curlew
"near San Pedro ... [on] January 29."
_Actitis macularia_ (Linnaeus).--The Spotted Sandpiper has been
obtained from two localities in Coahuila. Miller (1955a:162) stated
that an immature in fall migration was taken "at the tank in the
western hills" of the Sierra del Carmen on September 4. Burleigh and
Lowery (1942:189) found the Spotted Sandpiper "at the Chorro del Agua
near Arteaga" on April 17 and 19.
_Totanus melanoleucus_ (Gmelin).--_Specimen examined:_ one, [Female]
31024, from the Rio Grande (=17 mi. S Dryden, Terrell Co., Texas, in
Coahuila), 600 ft., March 18, 1952, weight, 224 gms.
The Greater Yellowlegs is an uncommon spring and probably fall migrant
in Coahuila. No. 31024 is the first record of this species in Coahuila.
_Totanus flavipes_ (Gmelin).--Miller (1955a:162) reported that Marsh
took a Lesser Yellowlegs "at the tank in the western hills" of the
Sierra del Carmen on September 4.
_Erolia melanotos_ (Vieillot).--Miller (1955a:162) reported taking a
Pectoral Sandpiper on September 4 "at the tank in the western hills" of
the Sierra del Carmen.
[_Erolia minutilla_ (Vieillot).--Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore
(1950:99) listed the Least Sandpiper from Coahuila.]
*_Recurvirostra americana_ Gmelin.--_Specimens examined:_ total 2:
[Male] 31433 and [Female] 31432 from 8 mi. E, 2 mi. S Americanos, May
19, 1954.
Van Hoose (1955:302) reported a small breeding colony of American
Avocets 8 mi. E and 2 mi. S Americanos "on a large grassy playa
traversed by rows of creosote (_Larrea tridentata_)." No. 31432 was
taken from a nest containing four partly-incubated eggs. Van Hoose
(_loc. cit._) also reported that four eggs in a second nest contained
well-developed, downy young.
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