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U. S. p. E. E, EXP, AND SUEVETS — ZOOLOGY — GENEEAL EEPOET. 



List of specimens. 



No. I ag6. 



7058 

 ]0393 

 434(1 

 487J 

 4680 

 4876 

 4878 

 4877 

 5444 

 .5445 

 6658 

 80"<7 



O 



s 



Locality. 



St. Louis 



D;ine county. Wis., 



Itacine, Wis 



CuuiiciJ BluflV 



do 



When 

 collected. 



May 6. IS.'j" 

 May 20,1855 



April 28. 



.do., 



Om:tha City, Neb. . 

 do 



Medicine Hill 



Medicine cret-k ... 

 FortTiioin, N. M.. 

 Mexico 



April 28.. 

 ....do.... 



June 2:i,1856 

 June 6 



Sept. —,1836 



Whence olitained. 



Lieut. Bryan., 

 S. F. Baird ... 



.do. 



Lieut. Warren. 

 do 



do., 



.... do.. 

 , do.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



Dr. Hcnry,U.S.A.. 

 John Gould... ., ., 



Collected by- 



W. S Wood... 

 Th. Kuiulicn . 



Dr. Hay 



Dr. Htiyden ... 



do.. 



.do., 

 .do., 

 .do.. 



do., 

 .do.. 



Length. 



9.011 

 10. .W 

 9.50 

 9.25 

 9.50 

 9.25 



Stret'h i Wing. 

 'Jffings.j 



16. UO 



16 iS 

 16.12 

 16.75 



17 50 

 16.75 



15.00 



5.00 

 5.00 

 5.12 

 5.75 

 4.37 

 4.5U 



Remarks. 



Eyes dark blue. , 



Lobipes, C u v . 

 PHALAEOPUS HYPEKBOREUS, (Linn.) T e m m . 



Northern Phalarope. 



TrJnga hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17G6, 249. 



Lobii)tshijperboreus,"Cv\.'R. A."— Eon. List, 1838.— Ano. Syn. 1839, 240.— Ib. Birds Amer.V, 1842, 295 ; pi. 340. 



Pualaroims hyperboreus, Temm. Man. II, 1820, 709 — Add. Cm. Biog. lU, 1835, 118 : V, 595 ; pi. 215. 



Tringa lobata, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249. 



Trivga fusca, Gm. Syst Nat. I, 17,"8, 675. 



Phatnropus rvficotlis, Pallas, Z005. Rosso-Asiit. II, 1811, 203. 



Plularopus cinerascens, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso- Asiat. II, 1811, 204. 



Figures.— Buff. PI. Enl. 766.— Edwards, Birds, HI, pi. 143, 46, 308.— Pallas, Zoog. II, pi. 62.— Bonap. Am. Cm. IV, 

 pi. 25, fig. 2.— Aud. E. of Am. pi. 254 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 340. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill short, straight, pointed ; wings long; lail short; legs short. Mull. Neck encircled with a ring of bright 

 ferruginous, and a Btripe of the same on each side ; head above and neck behind sooty ash ; back, wings, and tail, bruwni h 

 black, paler on the rump, mi.\ed with bright ferruginous on the back. Tips of greater wing coverts wliite. Sides and thinks 

 Bsliy, frequently mixed with reddish ; throat, breast, and abdomen white ; bill and legs dark. Young. Entire upper parts 

 brownish black ; many feathers edged and tipped with dull yellow and ashy ; under parts wliite ; tips of greater wing coverts 

 white. Total length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4| ; tail, 2' ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, J inch. 



f/o4. — The whole of temperate North America, Europe, Japan, (Mr. Heine, Japan E.tp.) San Francisco, California, (Mr. 

 Cutis.) 



A very widely diffused little species, and one of the handsomest and most graceful of the 



wading birds. Specimens from various parts of the world are precisely alike in specific 



characters. 



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