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PR^ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL.E. 



B. Bill sul)ulate, the nostrils strictly basal. 



2. Lobipes. Feet as in Phalaropus. 



3. Stegauopus. Web between outer and middle toes not reaching to second joint ; lateral 



niLiiibraue to all the toes narrow and scarcely scalloped. 



Genus PHALAROPUS, Bbisson. 



Phalaropus, Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 12 (type, Tringafulicaria, Vieill.). 

 " CrymoiMlus, Vikill. 1816 " (Cassin). 



P. fulicarius. 



Char. Bill flattened, broad, the nostrils sub-basal ; web between outer and middle toes 

 extending to beyond second joint of the latter ; marginal membrane of the toes broad and deeply 

 scalloped. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. 



THE RED PHALAROPE. 



Tringafulicaria, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 249 (based on Phalarojms rufescens, Briss. Orn. VI. 20 ; 



Edwards, pi. 142) 

 Phalaropus fid icar ins, Bonap. Jour. Pliilad. Acad. IV. 1825, 232. — Sw. & Kick. F. B. A. II. 1831, 



407. — NuTT. Man. II. 1834, 236.- AuD. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 404, pi. 255; Synop. 1839, 



239 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 291, pi. 339. — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 707. — Baird, Cat. N. 



Am. r.. 1859, no. 521. — CouES, Key, 1872, 248 ; Check List, 1873, no. 411 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 



604 ; B. N. W. 1874, 471. — Ridgw. Norn. N. Am. B. 1882, no. 563. 

 Phalaropus ruf Its, Pall. Zoog. Rosso- As. II. 1831, 205, pi. 63. 

 Phalaropus p/afyrhynchus, Temm. Man. 1815, 459. 

 Phalarop)us rufescens. Brass. Orn. VI. 1760, 20. 

 Phalaropus griseus. Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1816, 34. 



Hab. Northern portions of the northei'U hemisphere, breeding in very high latitudes, and 

 migrating southward in winter ; chiefly maritime ; in America, recorded from as far south as 

 Ohio, Illinois, and Cape St. Lucas. 



Sp. Char. Adult, summer plumage: Entire lower parts dee]) purplish cinnamon ; sides of 

 head white. Back and scapulars light ochraceous or buff, striped with black ; wing-coverts deep 

 bluish plumbeous, the greater widely tijiped with pure white ; remiges plumbeous-dusky. Lining 

 of the wing white, bordered exteriorly with dusky grayish. Male, with the crown and nape 



