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Phalaropits fulicarius (not Tringa fidicaria Linnaeus) Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1871, 

 pi. 39, fig. 5.— Hume, Ibis, 1872, 469 (Sind, India); Stray Feath., i, 1873, 

 144, 245 (between Gwadar and Muscat); vii, 1878, 487 (Calcutta). 



Phalaropus asiaticus Hume, Stray Feath., i, 1873, 246 (between Gwadar and 

 Muscat). 



Lobipes tropicus Hume, i, 1873, 247 (Karachi, India; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). 



Steganopus tricolor (not of Vieillot) Brooks and Cobb, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 467 

 (Birch Lake, Alberta; see Auk, xxix, 1912, 400). 



Genus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 



Steganopus (i Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxiv, 1818, 124 (no type indi- 

 cated, but diagnosis given); xxxii, 1819, 136. (Type, S. tricolor Vieillot.) 



Holopodius Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 342. (Type, by 

 original designation, Phalaropus wilsonii Ssihme=Steganopus incoZor Vieillot.) 



(?) Amhlyrhynchus (not of Leach, 1814) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 

 Water Birds, 1834, 247. (Type, by original designation, Tringa glacialis 

 Gmelin =Steganopus tricolor Vieillot ? ) ^ 



Rather large Phalaropes (wing 116-135 mm.) with slender, slightly 

 depressed bill, basal nostrils, long tarsus (distinctly longer than 

 middle toe with claw), narrowly margined and slightly webbed toes, 

 and double-emarginate tail. 



BUI about as long as tarsus, slender, sUghtly depressed, with lateral 

 outhnes nearly parallel; nostril basal (close to loral antia), narrow, 

 the lateral groove of maxilla indistinct. Wing long and pointed, the 

 longest primary (outermost) extending much beyond tips of longest 

 tertials. Tail between one-third and one-half as long as wing, 

 double-emarginate. Tarsus decidedly longer than middle toe with 

 claw, much compressed, the acrotarsium covered with a continuous 

 series of narrow transverse scutella, the planta tarsi also transversely 

 scutellate; unfeathered portion of tibia much longer than first 

 phalanx of middle toe, transversely scutellate before and behind; 

 inner toe decidedly shorter than middle toe, the outer toe not de- 

 cidedly shorter than inner; lateral membrane of anterior toes narrow, 

 shaUowly or indistinctly scalloped, the web between outer and 

 middle toes not extending to second articulation of the latter. 



Coloration. — -Under parts white; adult female in summer with 

 forehead and crown pale bluish gray, a black stripe on side of head 

 passing into rich chestnut on lower neck; adult male similar but 

 coloration much duller. 



Range. — Temperate North America, chiefly west of Mississippi 

 River, south in winter to Chile, Argentina, and Falkland Islands. 

 (Monotypic.) 



o l^reyavoirvs, planipes. (Vieillot.) 



b Tringa glacialis Gmelin (based on Plain Phalarope Pennant, Arctic Zool.,ii, 495) is not 

 identifiable with certainty. It has usually been considered to be the young of Phala- 

 ropus fuUcarius, but I agree with Doctor Coues (Birds of the Northwest, 467, footnote) 

 in considering it more likely the young of Steganopus tricolor. 



