LOBIPES. 149 



times black, but tlie feathers of tlie back and scapulars liave spots or 

 margins of white. 



"Young female. — Is at tirst like the young male and has the same 

 yellow-spotted wing-coverts: the hind neck is gray, vermiculated with 

 dusky like the male, and the markings on the throat are similar to those 

 of the latter sex. When the chestnut color is first assumed, it is of a 

 dull tint, and is obscured by dusky margins to the feathers; the chin is 

 white, and the throat and fore neck uniform brown, with which the 

 chestnut feathers are often mingled." (Sharpe.) 



"Fairly abundant about the rice-fields. Easy to bring down on account 

 of its comparatively slow and heavy flight. Eesident in the Philippines. 

 We obtained its nest and eggs in Siquijor." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Subfamily PHALAROPODIN.^. 



Small sandpipers with the toes lobed, and posterior side of tarsus 

 serrated. 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier, 1817.* 



Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not widened toward tip; nostrils 

 separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth 

 of upper mandible at base. 



125. LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linmpus). 



NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 



Tringa lohata Linn.^sus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758) ; ed. 12 (1766), 1, 149. 

 Phalaropus lohaius Ridgway, Man. North Am. Bds. (1887), 144. 

 Phalaropus hyperhoreus Sharpe, Cat. Bii-ds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 698; 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 167; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 70. . 



Basilan Straits (Mearns). Arctic regions; in winter to southern oceans. 



''Adult female in sunnuer.^Ahoxe dark plumbeous, the back striped 

 with ochraceous or buff; wings dusky, the greater coverts broadly tipped 

 with white; lower parts white; chest and sides of neck rufous. 



''Adult male in summer. — Similar to the female, but colors duller, the 

 rufous almost confined to sides of neck, and less distinct, the chest 

 chiefly mixed with white and grayish. 



"Winter plumage. — Forehead, superciliary stripe, sides of head and 

 neck, with lower parts generally, pure white; top of head grayish, the 

 feathers with dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders ; a blackish spot 

 in front of eye, and side of head, from bcnonth eye, ai-ross ear-coverts 

 niixt'd dusky and grayisli white; upper parts chiefly grayish; sides of 

 chest washed or clouded witli grayisli. 



"Young. — Top of head dusky, with or witliout streaks; back and 

 scapulars blackisli, distinctly bordered with hull' or ochraceous; middle 



Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. llisl. ( 1907), 24, 20. 



