RED PHALAROPE 15 



Fall migration. — Late dates of departure in the fall are : Alaska, 

 Chatham Straits, September 9, Becharof Lake, October G, Point 

 Barrow, October 10, St. Michael, October 14, and Kodiak Island, 

 November 4 ; Washington, Ilwaco, November 9, and Shoalwater Bay, 

 November 24; California, Berkeley, October 27, Point Reyes, No- 

 vember 22, and Santa Barbara, November 30; Labrador, West Ste. 

 Modiste, September 13; Prince Edward Island, North River, No- 

 vember 20; Nova Scotia, off the coast, September 16; Maine, West- 

 brook, September 26, Old Orchard, October 5, and Portland, October 

 16; Massachusetts, North Truro, October 15, near Nantucket, October 

 25, and Boston, December 30; Connecticut, Portland, October 21, 

 and East Haven, November 24; New York, Oneida Lake, October 

 4, Branchport, October 12, Orient Point, October 15, Cayuga Lake, 

 October 18, and Montauk Point, November 27; Maryland, White's 

 Ferry, October 4 ; District of Columbia, Anacostia River, October 17 ; 

 and Virginia, Blacksburg, September 21. 



Casual records. — The red phalarope is rare or irregular anywhere 

 in the interior but it has nevertheless been detected over wide areas 

 on several occasions. Among these records are : Vermont, Woodstock, 

 November 10, 1916; Pennsjdvania, Bucks County, December 15, 

 1918; Ohio, Painesville, November 9, 1923; Ontario, Ottawa, October 

 21, 1886, and Hamilton, November 17, 1882; Michigan, Monroe, 

 October 24, 1888, and October 25, 1890; Indiana, Jasper County, 

 April 10, 1885, and Terre Haute, October 23, 1889 ; Wisconsin, Lake 

 Koshkonong, September 3, 1891, Delavan, October 11, 1902, and near 

 Cedar Grove, October 8, 1921 ; Kentucky, near Louisville, latter part 

 of October, 1808; South Dakota, one taken near Rapid City (date 

 unknown); Kansas, near Lawrence, November 5, 1905; Wyoming, 

 Laramie Plains, fall of 1897; Colorado, Loveland, July 25, 1895; and 

 Texas, Wise County, September 26, 1893. It also has been taken 

 once in New Zealand, at Waimate, South Island, in June, 1883. 



Egg dates. — Alaska: 152 records, May 25 to July 13; 76 records, 

 June 14 to 30. Arctic Canada: 14 records, June 21 to July 14; 

 7 records, June 24 to July 6. Spitsbergen : 22 records, June 24 to 

 July 18; 11 records, June 28 to July 11. Iceland: 17 records, June 1 

 to 25 ; 9 records, June 14 to 22. 



LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnaeus) 



NORTHERN PHALAROPE 



HABITS 



This is the smallest, the most abundant, and the most widely dis- 

 tributed of the phalaropes; consequently it is the best known. Its 

 breeding range is circumpolar, but extends much farther south than 



