AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ORDER VIII. PINNATIPEDES. PINNATED FEET. 



Genus LXXXII. PHALAROPUS. PHALAROPE. 



Species I. P. FULICARIOS. 



GRAY PHALAROPE.* 



[Plate LXXIII. Fig. 4.] 



Tringa Fulicaria, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, torn, i., p. 148, 6. — Tringa glacialis, Gmel. 

 Syst. I., p. 675, 2. T. hyperhorea, var. 6, Id. p. 676. — Le Phalarope, Briss. Orn. 

 VI., p. 12, No. 1. Phalaropus ritfeficens, Id. p. 20. — PhaJaropus lobatiis, Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. p. 776, 2. P. glacialis, Id. No. 3. Red Phalarope, fem. Geii. Syn. 

 III., p. 271. Gray Phalarope, Id. p. 272, 2. Plain Phalarope, Id. p. 273, 3. — 

 Gray Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zonl. No. 218. Arct. Zool. No. 412. Red Phala- 

 rope, Id. No. 413. Plain Phalarope, Id. No. 415. Red Coot-footed Tringa, 

 Edh^.^rds, pi. 142. Gray Coot-footed Tringa, Id. Gleanings, PI. 308. — Le 

 Phalarope rouge. Buff. Ois. viii., p. 225. Le Phalarope dfestons dentelis. Id. p. 

 226. — Gray Phalarope, Mont.^git, Orn. Die. and Appendix to Sup. — Bewick, ii., 

 p. 132. — Le Phalarope gris, Cl'v. Reg. An. i., p. 492. Le Phalarope rouge. Id. 

 Ibid. — Phaloropus plalyrhinchus. Temm. Man. d' Orn. p. 712. 



Bill pretty stout and -wide, slightly compressed at the tip, depressed 

 on the lower half, upper mandible carinatc ; nostrils subovatc, a short 

 distance from the base ; feet semipalmate, lobes of the toes broad and 

 greatly scalloped; hind toe barely touching the ground. 



Bill reddish orange at the base, the remainder black, an inch long ; 

 front and crown black, barred transversely with lines of white ; throat, 

 sides of the neck, and lower parts, white, thickly and irregularly barred 

 with curving dashes of reddish chocolate ; upper parts of a deep cine- 

 reous blue, streaked with brownish yellow and black ; the black scapu- 

 lars broadly edged with brownish yellow ; wings and rump dark cine- 

 reous ; greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a large 

 band ; primaries nearly black, and crossed with white beloAv the coverts ; 

 tail plain olive, middle of its coverts black, their sides bright brownish 



■* Named in the plate Red Phalarope. 



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