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Measurements
Linear
Appendix 3 . Churchill Co., NV: male bill length (exposed culmen) 61.7 mm ± 6.4 SD (range 57–69); male wing-chord 229.7 mm ± 7.5 SD (range 221–234); male tarsus 109.3 mm ± 4.0 SD (range 105–113, n = 3; JAR and LWO). Cache Co., Utah: male bill length 60 mm; male wing-chord 219 mm; male tarsus 110 mm (n = 1); female bill length 64 mm, female wing-chord 213 mm, female tarsus 110 mm (n = 1; T. A. Sordahl, unpubl.). Measurements of specimens also are reported in Ridgway 1919 and Hamilton 1975 .
Mass
Appendix 3 . Churchill Co., NV: male mass (breeding season while incubating) 159.3 g ± 8.5 SD (range 151–168, n = 3; JAR and LWO). Cache Co., Utah: male 166 g (n = 1), female 176 g (n = 1; T. A. Sordahl unpubl.). Tulare Basin, CA: male mass (breeding season while incubating) 166 g ± 11.4 SD (range 148–172, n = 6; JPS).
Robinson, Julie A., J. Michael Reed, Joseph P. Skorupa and Lewis W. Oring. 1999. Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/449
