PHALAROPODID.E: PHALAROPES. 



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Fig. 551. — Wilson's Phalarope. (From Seebohm's Charadriidie.) 



Hudson's Bay, casually withiu the Arctic Circle (lat. 69° 30') ; rare in U. S. E. of Illinois 

 and Lake Michigan ; abundant in the Mississippi Valley at large and westward, but not ou 

 the Pacific coast. 

 Migratory ; S. in 

 winter, even to Pat- 

 agonia ; breeds in 

 suitable places 

 in much of its N. 

 Am. range. Nest 

 iu low grassy mead- 

 ows and marshes. 

 Eggs 3-4, 1.20- 

 1.35 X 0.90 broad, 

 thus elongate pyri- 

 form, clay-color to 

 brd wii ish - d r ab, 

 heavily marked with 

 large splashes and 

 sizable spots, with 



numberless specks and scratches, of dark bistre or chocolate-brown ; some eggs much less 

 painted than others, in finer pattern; incubated by the $. This is the Plain Phalarope of 

 Pennant and Latham, described as having the " toes bordered with a plain or unscalloped 

 membrane " — an expression inapplicable to either ot the other species : see my Birds N. W. 

 1874, p. 467. The Plain Phalarope is the basis of Triiiga glacialls Gm. 1788, the earliest 

 technical name, and therefore the one we should adopt, as Xuttall did in 1834, when he called 

 the bird Amhli/rlii/nchus glndalls, in his Man. ii, p. '247. Stegnnopus tricolor Vikill. 1819; 

 A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. 1897, p. ]2<i. No. :i24. Ph. tricolor Stici. Auk, 1885, p. 183; 

 KiDGW. Man. 1887, p. 145 ; A. 0. U. Lists, 1886-95, No. 224. Ph. wihoni S.\B. 1823. Lobipes 

 wilsoni Steph. 1824. Hulopodius icilsoni Bp. 1828-38. Stegunopns wihoni Coi'E.s, Ibis, 

 1865, p. 158 ; Key, 1872-90, and of most authors. Ph. fimbriatus Temm. 1825. Ph. fremitus 

 ViFii.i.. 1826. Ph. sienoddctylns Wagl. 1831. Lobipes iitcfinits Jaui>. and Sklmy. 

 LO'BIPKS. (Lat. /cifo».s, a flap, pes, foot.) Lobe-foot Piialaropes. Bill generally as in 

 Steganopiis, but shorter, basally stouter, and tapering to very acute, compressed tip; ridge of 

 culiaeu and gonys less depressed ; interramal space longer and broader. Wings long. Tail 

 short, greatly rounded. Legs and feet short; tibia? denuded but a brief space; tarsus n»a 

 longer than midiUe toe. Toes very broadly margined with a membrane wliidi is scalloped or 

 indented at each joint, and united basally to second joint between outer and middle toe, to first 

 joint between inner and middle toe; feet thus semipahnate. Claws small and short. A per- 

 fectly good genus, duly founded by Cuvier in 1817, but which the A. 0. U. have nevertheless 

 made a subgenus of, under the wrong name Phnlaropm. I am no stickler for needless ge- 

 neric divisions, and wonld put all our Piialaropes under one genus with three subgenera. But 

 there cannot be two genera, with two subgenera of one of tiieni, for the differences in form of 

 each of the three species are on a par. ."^ee my Birds N. W. I>7 I, i<. 4(>«l, and article iu Auk, 

 ,Iaii. IH'U), p. 65; see also under Phalxropu.'i, beyond. 



L. lolm'tiis. (Lat. lobatiis, lobed, as the toes are. Figs. .552. .">.">.3.) Northf.kn Pmai.a- 

 Kol'K. IIVPKKBOREAN PlIALAUoPE. IIkU-NE(KEI» PiIALAKOPK. Co<)T-F<)(»TF.l> TuiNOA. 



Aihiit 9, iti summer: Above, ))lumbeous, witli lateral .stripes of <»chracoou8 or tawny; neck 

 rich rust-red, nearly or rpiite all arouml; under parts otlierwi.se white, .sides marked with ctilor 

 of back. Upper tail-coverts like back, some lateral ones wliite. Wiiic.s blacki.sh ; cnd.s of 

 greater coverts broatlly wliitr, forming a conspicuous cross-bar, continuetl on .Ht»me of the iuuiT 



