696 CHARADRI1DA 



Phalaropus lobatus, Blyth, Ibis, 1859, p. 464 (Calcutta, May). 

 Phalaropus cinereus, Fritsch, Vbg. Eur. tab. 3 g. fig. 3 (1871). 

 Lobipes wilsoui (nee Sabine), Blakist. Sf Fryer, Tr. As. Soc. Japan, 



viii. p. 196 (1880). 

 Cryrnophilus fulicarius, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 140 



(1885: Bering Island); id. Auk, ii. p. 183 (1885); A. O. U. 



Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 145 (1886) ; Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. 



Alaska, p. 145 (1886 : breeding) ; Nelson, Hep. Nat. Hist. Coll. 



Alaska, p. 145 (1887) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 144 (1887) ; 



Wan-en, B. Pennsylv. p. 235 {1888) ; Chnpm. Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist. iii. p. 132 (1891 : British Columbia) ; Mac/. Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 425 (1891 : Franklin Bay, July ; breeding) ; 



Stejn. t. c. p. 492 (Japan) ; Mackay, Auk, viii. p. 120 (1891 : Mass., 



October); White, t. c. p. 233 (Gulf of St. Lawrence, May); 



Mackay, Auk, ix. p. 294 (1892 : Mass., Mav) ; Miller, t.c. p. 298; 



Allen, Auk, x. p. 123 (1893) ; Morris, Auk, xi. p. 181 (1894 : 



Mass., Sept.); Mackay, t.c. p. 225; Canjield, Auk, xii. p. 77 



(1895: Bridgeport, Conn.) ; Cones, t.c. p. 339; Elliot, N. Amer. 



Shore-birds, p. 21, fig. 2 (1895) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 82 (1895) ; Sharpe, Handb. Brit. B. iii. p. 193, 



pi. lxxxiv. (1896). 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. General colour above sandy 

 buff, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; scapulars like the 

 back ; lower back dark slate-colour ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut, with black centres to many of the feathers, some of the 

 tail-coverts slaty grey with sandy margins ; lesser wing-coverts 

 slaty blue, with whitish edgings ; the median series and greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish with white shafts, the inner primary-coverts 

 tipped with white, most of the primaries white at the base of the 

 outer web; the secondaries for the most part white, blackish towards 

 the ends of the outer webs ; innermost secondaries dark slate-colour 

 or blackish with sandy-rufous edges, like the back ; centre tail- 

 feathers blackish with sandy margins, the lateral ones dark grey 

 fringed with white, the outermost more broadly edged and having 

 a white shaft ; crown of head sooty black ; nape and hind-neck also 

 blackish ; forehead, lores, anterior part of face, chin, and upper 

 throat dark slate-colour ; feathers below the eye, a small streak 

 above the latter, and ear-coverts white ; sides of neck and entire 

 under surface of body vinous chestnut ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white ; quills ashy below, whitish along the inner webs. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 1, wing 54, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85, 

 middle toe and claw 0-9. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Similar to the female, but not so 

 brightly coloured, the head being sandy brown streaked with blackish 

 like the back, and not sooty black as in the female bird ; sides of 

 face vinous chestnut, the base of the cheeks and chin tinged with 

 slaty grey, with a good deal of white on the throat and under 

 surface of body, which never seems to get uniformly vinous chestnut 

 as in the adult female. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 085, 

 wing 5 - 05, tail 2 - 55, tarsus 0*9, middle toe and claw 0-9. 



