BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 423 



Martin, Zool. Gart., 1871, 157.— Fallon, Ois. Belg., 1875, 189.— Gatke, 

 Vogelw. Helgoland, 1891, 528. 



Fhalaropus platyrhinchus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1820, 712; iv, 1840, 446. — ■ 

 Fox, Newc. Misc., 1827, 118. 



Phalarophiis platyrhynchus Reinhardt, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1854, 441 (Greenland). 



Phalaropus griseiis Leach. Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 34 (Yorkshire, 

 England). 



Ph[alaropics] rufescens Keyserlino and Blasius, Wirb. Eiir., 1840, pp. Ixxii, 

 212 (based on Le Phalarope roiissatre Brisson, Orn., vi, 1760, 20). 



Phalaropus rufcscens Sciilegel, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. xciv; Vog. Nederl., 1854, 

 pi. 239. — Middendorfp, Reis. Sibir., Zool., 1851, 216 (Taimyr River, breed- 

 ing; Boganida River).— MOller, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 229 (Provence). — 

 NoRDMANN, Journ. fiir Orn., 1864, 374 (Finland). — Droste, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1868, 406 (e. Friesland).— Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i, 1876, 

 251; ii, 1877, 157 (Poland); Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., 1877, 55.— Bogdanow, 

 Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 81. 



Phalaropus rufcscejis Zx'SVER, Archiv Mecklenb., xv, 1861, 119. 



Phalaropus platyroslris Nordmann, in Demidoff, Voy. Russ. Merid., iii, 1840, 250. 



Phalaropus dnereus Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1871, pi. Sg, fig. 3. 



Lobxpcs wilsonii? (not Phalaropus wilsoni Sabine) Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. 

 Asiat. Soc. Japan, viii, 1880, 196; x, 1882, 113 (Japan). 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



Lobipes Cuvier, R^gne Anim., i, 1817 (1816), 495. (Type, by original designa- 

 tion, Tringa hyperhmea Linn8eu8=!r. lobata Linnseus.) 



Small Phalaropos (wing 102-113 mm.) with slender, acuminate- 

 subulate bill, nostrils close to loral feathering, lateral membrane of 

 toes broad and distinctly scalloped, and web between outer and 

 middle toes extending to or beyond second articulation of the latter. 



Bill slender and pointed (acuminate-subulate), narrower than deep 

 subterminally, the exposed culmen a little longer than tarsus; lat- . 

 eral grooves of maxilla narrow, extending halfway (approximately) 

 to tip; nostril basal (close to loral feathering), small, longitudinally 

 linear. Wing long and pointed, the longest primary (outermost, 

 which is only slightly longer than the next) extending decidedly 

 beyond tip of longest tertials. Tail nearly half as long as wing 

 moderately graduated. Tarsus as long as middle toe without claw 

 or slightly longer, much compressed, the acrotarsium covered by a 

 continuous single series of transverse scutella; outer toe nearly 

 long as middle toe, the iimer toe slightly shorter than outer toe; 

 lateral membrane of anterior toes broad, distinctly (but moderately) 

 scalloped, the web between outer and middle toes extending to or 

 beyond second articulation of middle toe. 



Coloration. — Under parts white, upper parts slaty or dusky; 

 adults in summer with sides of neck and whole chest cinnamon- 

 rufous, this more restricted and less distinct in male. 



Range. — Circumpolar regions, south in winter to Guatemala, 

 Bermudas, Celebes, Aru Islands, Hawaiian Islands, etc. (Monotypic) 



