366 Dr. A, Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



, A young bird in the Museum of the Natural History Society, 

 has its dorsal aspect, with the exception of the transversal band 

 of the rump, which is white, dusky, barred with brown on the 

 dorsal region and short scapulars ; the long scapulars and quills 

 clove brown, the latter tipped with white, the former with a few 

 terminal bands of pale ferruginous ; on the ventral aspect, the 

 chin and cheeks are white; throat and breast dusky ; belly, vent 

 and flanks, with the tail coverts dusky white, the last with a 

 streak of brown in the centre of each feather and margined with 

 dusky ; the line from the bill to the eye like the old bird. This 

 bird is a rare one in the district of Montreal, and appears to as- 

 sociate with the curlews. 



Sub genus Phaleropus, 

 Sub gen. char. Bill a little longer than the head, slender, 

 straight, depressed at the base, furrowed on both mandibles to 

 near the tip; tip of upper mandible inflected on the lower, and 

 rather subulate ; nostrils linear, lateral and basal ; front toes con- 

 nected at base by a membrane, the inner toe to the first joint, the 

 outer toe to the second joint; the membranous margin of the re- 

 mainder of the toes broadly and deeply scolloped ; hind toe short, 

 scarcely touching the ground, and consequently scarcely used in 

 walking. 



P, hyperhoreus. Hyperborean Phalerope. 



P. fuscus of Latham ! 



Lohipes hyperhoreus of Cuvier ! 



Tringa hyperhorea of Linnaeus ! 



Tringa lobata, young of do. 1 



Phaleropus hyperhoreus. Baird 1 

 v.s.p. Bill black ; legs and feet blackish greeen ; irides hazel ; 

 eggs 3 to 4, olivaceous, thickly spotted with blackish brown. 



Young bird ; dorsal aspect. Frontlet, line over the eye, and 

 between the auriculars, and nuchal region white ; spot in front 

 of the eye, auriculars, and crown of head blackish brown, de- 

 scending in a streak along the centre of the nape of the neck ; the 

 remainder of the nape of neck white tinged with cinereous ; in- 

 terscapulary region and scapulars blackish brown edged with 

 tawny; rump blackish brown, the feathers tipped with white ; 

 lateral tail coverts white, central ones blackish brown tipped with 

 tawny ; tail blackish brown, the centre feathers tipped with 

 tawny, the lateral feathers edged and tipped with white ; small 



