270 NEW-YORK FAUNA BIRDS. 



. GENUS HOLOPODIUS. Bonaparte. 



Bill long, very slender, flexible, cylindrical and of equal breadth throughout ; the point nar- 

 row and slightly curved. Nostrils basal, long and linear ; the grooves nearly obsolete. 

 Tarsus long, acutely compressed. Toes elongated ; the hind toe long, and resting on the 

 ground. A slight web between the middle and outer toes to the first joint, scarcely per- 

 ceptible between the middle and inner toe. Edging membrane of the toes narrow, and 

 almost wholly entire. 



WILSON'S HOLOPODE. 



HOLOPODIUS WILSONI. 



PLATE LXXXIX. FIGS. 201, 202. 



(STATE COLLECTION. Cabinet of G. N. Lawbence.) 



Phalaroptts lobatus, Wilson. Oed, Vol. 9, pp. 72, 232, pi. 73, fig. 2. 



P. wilsoni. Sabine, Franklin's Exped. 



P. (Holopodius) wilsoni. Bonapaete, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 342. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 405, 



pi. 69 (summer). Bonaparte, Am. Ornith. Vol. 4, p. 59, pi. 24, fig. 1 (adult) ; 



pi. 25, fig. 1 (young). Audubon, Birds of Am. Vol. 5, p. 299, pi. 341 (male and 



female). Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 246. 



Characteristics. Bluish grey ; beneath white. A long chesnut stripe on the sides of the 

 neck, confluent on the back ; and a black curving band through the eye 

 on each side of the neck. Female and young, dusky brown; beneath 

 white. Sides of the neck tinged with rufous, but without the dark 

 band. Length, 10-0. 



Description. Tibia 0-7 in its naked part : bill 1 - 3. Membrane lining the toes continuous, 

 not lobed. 



Color. Crown of the head and lores ash-grey. Above brown. A streak over the eye, 

 the chin, sides of the rump, tips and edges of the lateral tail-feathers, and all beneath white. 

 A black band passes through the eyes, becomes dilated, and ends on the sides of the neck. 

 Young or male in change, in the State Collection (fig. 202), present some differences from 

 that described by Bonaparte (op. cit.). The crown darker, mixed with rufous ; frontlet, sides 

 of the head, chin, throat and all beneath soiled white ; back of the neck ash-grey ; above 

 black varied with rufous ; rump white ; central tail-feathers brownish, bordered with white ; 



