THE BIRD BOOK 



Male, female, young. 

 Wilson's Phalarope 



224. Wilson's Phalarope. 

 Steganopus tricolor. 



Range. — Interior of temperate North America, 

 breeding from the latitude of Iowa, northward, 

 and wintering south of the United States. 



This is the most handsome species of the fam- 

 ily, being of a very graceful form, of a grayish 

 and white color, with a broad stripe through the 

 eye and down the neck, where it fades insensibly 

 into a rich chestnut 

 color. It is an ex- 

 clusively American 

 species and is rare 

 ly found near the 

 coast. It builds its 

 nest generally in a 

 tuft of grass, the 

 nests also being of 

 grass. The eggs 



are of a brownish or greenish buff color, spotted 

 and blotched with black and brown. Size 1.30 x 

 .90. Data.— Larimore, N. D., May 30, 1897. Nest 

 a shallow depression, scratched in the sand, under 

 a tuft of grass on an island. Collector, T. F. 

 Eastgate. 





Brownish buff. 



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