LOBIPES HYPERBOREUS, NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 469 



newly-Hedged young on the Mouse Eiver, in Dakota, near Turtle 

 Mountain. These young were specially interesting to me, as showing 

 a plumage with which I had up to that time been unacquainted. It is 

 described above. In all such breeding localities, where the birds feel 

 at home, and have none of the restlessness they show when migrating, 

 their habits may be studied to the best advantage. I had excellent 

 0])portunity of seeing how gentle and confiding the birds become when 

 not molested, and how surprisingly graceful they are, either pacing the 

 brink of their favorite pool, or swimming buoyantly upon its surface, 

 1 had no heart to destroy any of the beautiful creatures, mu(;h as I 

 desired soifce for my cabinet, utter a scene I had witnessed when I had 

 secured some Avocets. Three Phalaro])es came in great concern and 

 alighted on the water where a dead Avocet was floating, swimming- 

 back and forth and almost caressing it with their bill. The Avocet's 

 mate himself, who was not long in reaching the spot, showed no more 

 agitation than his little friends and neighbors, the Phalaropes, did ; and 

 though it was only birds "of a low order of beings" who thus exhibited 

 sympathy and grief, avIio could look on such a scene unmoved "? 



Tlie eggs of Wilson's Phalarope are from 1.20 to 1.35 inches long, by 

 about O.IK) broad, thus being of an elongate as well as pyriform shape. 

 The ground ranges frouj a clay color to a brownish-drab ; it is very 

 heavily overlaid with the markings, sometimes to such extent that the 

 ground struggles to appear amid the ahnost coutiucus overlying color, 

 and an eix<v like a Ptarmigan's results. Ordinarily the markings con- 

 sist of numerous large, heav^y splashes and sizable spots of indetermi- 

 nate ccfntour, mixed with numberless specks and fine scratches ; occa- 

 sional eggs are much more lightly and sparsely si)eckled in finer pat- 

 tern. The color of the markings is a varying shade of dark bistre- 

 brown, sometimes chocolate. Shell-markings are not ordinarily notice- 

 able. 



LOBIPES HYPERBOREUS, (Linn.) Cuv. 



Northern Phahirope. 



Trhifja huperborea, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 249 (based on Fu. Suec. 179; Edw., 143; 

 Will., 270; R.vv, 132; Fhalaropus chiercus, Bmss., vi, 15). — Bkvnn., Oni. Bor. 

 1764, 172.— Fabk., Fd. Groen. 17H0, No. 75.— Gm., Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 675. 



PhalarojiiiN hiipo-borens, $ , Lath., lud. Orn. ii, 1790, 775 (oxcl. .sy ii. of siipposoci leniale^ 

 r. fitlicarius); Plancli. Enlnni. 766.— Temji., Man. 1815, 457; ii, 1820, 709.— 

 Sai{., Fiankl. Joniii. 690. — Bi'., Syn- 1828, '.542.— Nutt., Man. ii. Is34, 239.— 

 All)., Oin. Bioji. iii, 1^35, 118; v, 1839, 595; pi. 215.— Newu., P. R. R. Rep. vi, 

 1857, 98 (Des ChiitL's River, in suunnei). — Bl>., B. N. A. 1858, 706. — ScL. *fc 

 Salv., Ibis, ii, 1860, 277 (Guatemala).- Swin., Ibi.s, 1863, 4J5 (Formosa).— 

 Coop. &. Suck., N. H. Wash. U'er. 1860, 236.— Wiikat., Ohio A<?ric. Rep. 1860, 

 No. 200.— Verr., I'r. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 158 (Maine, possibly bieedinfi).— 

 (.')B()A1U)M., Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 12S(Bay ofFundy).- Lawi:., Ann. Lye.N. Y. 

 viii, 1866, 295 (New York).— Ali.kn. I'r. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 8() (Massachusetts).— 

 Mc'lLWK., Pr. Kss. Inst, v, ld(i6, 92 (Ciiiiada West).- Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, Srolo- 

 pacrx, .58.— TiiitM!,. B. E. Pa. 1869, 29 (May and September).— Stev., U. S. Geol. 

 Siirv. Ter. Irt70, 466 (Wyomiufr). 



Phalaroj>ii>~ {Lohipm) hypirhoniiti, Gi:ay, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 55, No. 10*361. 



Loh'qKS hupd-hoiTiiH, Cuv., Rt^yne Anim. i, 1829, 532.— STEl'll., Gen. Zool. xii, 169, pi. 21.— 

 Flk.m., Br. An. 100.— BiticiiM, V. D. 676, pi. 35, f. 4.— .Jen., Man. Br. Vert. 214.— 

 EVT., Cat. Br. B. 4:'..— Macoil., Man. N. II. Orn. ii, 84.— Bi'., Li.st, 1838, 54.— 

 All)., Syn. 1839. 240; B. Am. v, 1842, 29.5, pl. 340.— Gut., B. L. I. 1S44, 24m.— 

 CoUKS, Pr. Ess. Insl. vi, lHi8, 292 (migratory alon;; the eoast, perhajis hreed- 

 inj,^.— I>ALL & Bann.. Tr. Chie. Aead. i, 1869, 290 (Alaska).— Coiks, Key, 

 1^72. 24H, \\<r. 161 (foot).— RiDcw.. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 1S74, 385 (Illinois). 



{f)Tnnij(i lohala, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 176(;, 249 (ijased on Fn. Suee. No. 179; Tringa 

 (jrixai, BK1.S.S., ii, 2t>6, pl. 208; Phil. Trans, vol. 1. 2.55. pl. 6; Kuw., pl. 308; 

 rimlaropuH, Bhi.ss., vi, p. 12).— Brunn., Orn. Bor. 17()4, 51.— MUli.kk, No. 195.— 

 Faijr., Fn. Groen. 17>(t, No. 75. — G.m.. Syst. Nat. i, 17»'\ 674. 



