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Lobipes lobatus. 



Adult female in summer: Upper plumage, dark 

 plumbeous; the back, streaked with buff; sides and 

 front of the neck, rufous brown; greater wing coverts, 

 tipped with white; belly, white. 



Adult male in summer: Similar to the female but 



paler; little, if any, rufous on the front of the neck. 



Winter plumage: Upper plumage, grayish; forehead, sides of the 



neck, cheeks, and under parts, white; top of the head, dull gray; the 



feathers edged with dull white; a dusky spot on side of head and in 



front of the eye; breast, tinged with gray. 



Length, 7.50; wing, 4.25; tarsus, .80; tail, 2; bill, .80 to .90. 

 The Northern Phalarope occurs in Illinois and Wisconsin during 

 the migrations, and although there are numerous records of its capture 

 in both states, it is by no means common. Kumlien and Hollister 

 state that it is frequently taken on Lake Koshkonong in August. 

 Mr. G. A. Abbott informs me that he killed a specimen on Lake Calu- 

 met near Chicago, in September, 1903. 



Genus STEGANOPUS Vieill. 



104. Steganopus tricolor Vieill. 

 Wilson's Phalarope. 



Phalaropus tricolor (Vieill.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 83. 

 Distr.: Chiefly interior of North America, breeding from northern 

 Illinois northward; south in winter to South America. Common 

 along Mississippi Valley during migrations, rare or casual on the 

 Atlantic coast. 



Adult female in summer: Crown and middle 

 of back, pearl gray; nape, white; superciliary 

 stripe, white; a dusky or black streak from the 

 eye to the sides of the neck; sides of upper back, 

 chestnut, bordering the gray; middle throat and 

 breast tinged with pale rufous brown; chin, 

 white; belly, white. 



Adult male in summer: General resemblance 

 to the female, but smaller and much paler in coloration; the crown 

 and back, more brownish. 



Adult in winter: Upper plumage, the feathers more or less edged 

 with white; wings, fuscous, or gray brown; coverts, edged narrowly 

 with white; under parts, white. 



steganopus tricolor. 



