390 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson. 



102. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.). 

 Red Phalarope. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 82. 

 Distr.: Arctic regions, south in winter, chiefly along the coast, 

 to the Middle states in eastern North America and Lower California 

 in the West. 



Adult male in summer: General under parts and sides of the neck, 

 purplish brown; upper tail coverts, purplish brown, slightly darker 

 than the under parts; crown of the head and 

 base of the bill, smoky black; sides of the head, 

 white, extending to the nape; rump, white; 

 back, black; feathers, edged with tawny brown; 

 primaries, dusky, the shafts being white, and 

 the base of the feathers, white; some of the 

 ^, , r ,• ■ secondaries, white; bill, yellowish brown, dark 



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on the tip; feet, dull yellow. 



Adult in winter: Head and under parts, white; a small patch 

 around the eye and a nuchal crest, dusky; the under parts of the body 

 are tinged with ashy gray on the sides; upper parts, grayish ash color; 

 wings, showing a distinct white bar; bill, dusky; feet, brownish. 



Length, 7.70; wing, 5.10; tail, 2.50 bill, .94; tarsus, .80. 



The Red Phalarope is a comparatively rare bird in Illinois and 

 Wisconsin. Small flocks occasionally occur on Lake Michigan and 

 some of the inland waters during the migrations. 



Ridgway includes it as a rare migrant. Nelson in his Birds of 

 Northeastern Illinois (1876, p. 125) says: "Exceedingly rare, occurs 

 only during the migrations." Kumlien and Hollister (Birds of Wis- 

 consin, 1903, p. 41) state that small flocks may be met on Lake 

 Michigan and Lake Superior in autumn and occasionally straggling 

 individuals wander to the inland lakes. They also give several re- 

 cords of specimens killed in the state. 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



103. Lobipes lobatus (Linn.). 

 Northern Phalarope. 

 Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 82. 

 Distr.: North portion of northern hemisphere, breeding in Arctic 

 latitudes; south in winter to the tropics. 



