HYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 239 



p. 51. No. 172. Le Phalarope Rouge, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 225. Red 

 Phalarope, Lath. Syn. v. p. 271. 



Obs, Dr. Richardson suspects that plate 308, and 142 of Ed- 

 wards represents two Flat-Billed Phalarojyes. A specimen, now in 

 the British Museum, killed in the Orkneys, agrees in size and color 

 with Edwards' bird, plate 142, and is larger in all its dimensions 

 than the ordinary species. Similar large specimens were also killed 

 on Melville Peninsula, by Sir Edward Parry ; the summer plumage 

 of these does not materially differ, however, from that described 

 above, in the smaller species. 



Subgenus. — Lobipes. (Bonap. Cuv.) 



With the bill moderate, slender, cylindrical, subulate to the tip, 

 point narrow and sharp ; upper mandible slightly curved upon the 

 lower at tip. Nostrils not quite basal, linear. Tongxie filiform 

 and acute. Tarsi elongated, somewhat compressed ; toes rather 

 long ; middle one connected with the inner to the first, and with the 

 outer to the second joint ; the membranous margin of the toes 

 broad and deeply scalloped ; hind toe very short, touching the 

 ground only with the nail. Wings long : the tail rather short. The 

 general form slender. 



There is but one known species of this section, which bears con- 

 siderable resemblance to the Tatlers (Totanus,) and particularly Ca- 

 to2)trophorus, or the Willet. 



HYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 



(Pkalaropus hyperhoreus, etfuscvs, Lath. Ind. ii. pp. 774, 775. sp. 1. 

 and 4. Temm. ii. p. 709. Bonap. Syn. No. 278. Am. Orn. iv. p. 

 82. pi. 25. fig. 2. [young of the second year ?] Lobipes hyperho- 

 reus, Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. p. 533. Tringa hyperhorca, Lix. Syst. i. 

 p. 249. sp. 9. r. lohata. Ibid, [young.] Phil. Museum, No. 

 . . . .) 



Sp. Charact. — Black, varied with rufous, beneath white ; sides of 

 the neck and breast bright rufous and ash. — Winter plumage ci- 



