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V. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



Lobipes, C u v . 

 PHALAKOPUS HYPERBOREUS, (Linn.) T e m m . 



Northern Phalarope. 



Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 349. 



Lobipes hyperboreus, " Cdv. R. A."— Eon. List, 1838.— Add. Syn. 1839, 240.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 295 ; pi. 340. 



Pkalaropus hyperboreus, Temm. Man. II, 1820, 709— Add. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 118 : V, 595 ; pi. 215. 



Tringa lobata, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249. 



Triitga fusca, Gm. SysL Nat. I, 17S8, 675. 



Pkalaropus ruficollis, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. II, 1811, 903. 



Pkalaropus cinerascens, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. II,-1811, 204. 



FiGDREs.— Buff. PI. Enl. 766.— Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 143, 46, 308.— Pallas, Zoog. II, pi. 62.— Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, 

 pi. 25, fig. 2.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 254; oct. ed. V, pi. 340. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill short, straight, pointed ; wings long; tail short; legs short. Adult. Neck encircled with a ring of bright 

 ferruginous, and a stripe of the same on each side ; head above and neck behind sooty ash ; back, wings, and tail, browni-h 

 black, paler on the rump, mixed with bright ferruginous on the back. Tips of greater wing coverts white. Sides and flank^ 

 ashy, frequently mixed with reddish ; throat, breast, and abdomen white ; bill and legs dark. Young. Entire upper parts 

 brownish black ; many feathers edged and tipped with dull yellow and asliy ; under parts white ; tips of greater wing coverts 

 white. Total length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 2^ ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, I inch. 



Hob. — The whole of temperate North America, Europe, Japan, (Mr. Heine, Japan Exp.) San Francisco, California, (Mr. 

 CuttB.) 



A very widely diffused little species, and one of tlie handsomest and most graceful of the 



wading birds. Specimens from various parts of the world are precisely alike in specific 



characters. 



List of specimens. 



