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SHORE BIRDS. 



90. RED PHALAROPE. 



Median size, 8, bill short and thick, 

 fiof. 95; toes, well lobed. Summer female, 

 purplish cinnamon beneath and on neck 

 behind, sides of head and rump, white; top 

 of head, dark plumbeous; back, light reddish 

 streaked w^ith Ijlack, fig. 97. Summer male 



Fig. 99 



Adult 9 Wilson Phalarope. 1-4. 



smaller and duller. Winter adult, head, 

 neck and lower parts, white; back, pearl- 

 gray. Young, black above and w-hite be- 

 neath, tinged with buff. Occurs in Northern 

 Hemisphere, breeding far north ; south in 

 winter in N. A. as far as off coast of N. E. 

 in Sept., Oct., and May; rare in the interior. 



