144 XOIiTir AilERlCAy lilRDS. 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS Yieillot. (Pago 143, pi. XLIII., fig. 3.) 

 (Species. 



Adult female in summer : Entire lower parts deep purplish cinnamon ; sides of 

 head while; fore part and top of head uniform dark ])lumboous or blackish; hind- 

 neck plain cinnamon and plumbeou.s; back and scapulars light ochraccous or buff, 

 striped with black. Adult male in summer : Similar to the female, but top of head 

 and hind-neck streaked with ochraccous (or buffy) and blackish, the white on side of 

 head more restricted and less abruptly defined, and size somewhat less. Winter 

 •plumage : Ilcad, neck, and lower parts pure white, the occiput and space about 

 eyes dark plumbeous ; upper parts uniform pearl-gray, or light plumbeous. Young : 

 Top of head, hind-neck, back, and scapulars dull black, the feathers edged with 

 ochraccous; wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plumbeous, the middle cov- 

 erts bordered with pale buff, the tail-coverts with ochraccous ; head and neck (ex- 

 cept as described above) and lower parts white, the throat and chest tinged with 

 brownish buff. Downy young: Above bright tawny buff, marked with broad 

 irregular sti-ipes of black ; broad superciliary stripes bright tawny buff, separated 

 anteriorly only by a narrow and somewhat interrupted dusky streak ; crown bright 

 umber-brown bordered with black ; chin and throat light fulvous-buflf, changing to 

 smoky buff on chest ; rest of lower parts dull whitish. Length 7.50-8.75, wing 

 5.25-5.50, culmen .80-.95, tarsus .80-.85, middle too .75-.80. Eggs 3-4, 1.24 X .86, 

 pale drab, olive-drab, olive-buff, or pale brown, heavil}- spotted with dark brown. 

 Ilab. Northern portions of northern hemisphere, breeding far northward ; in 

 America, south, in winter, to Middle States, Ohio Valley, and Cape St. Lucas. 



222. C. fulicarius (Linn.). Red Phalarope. 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson. (Pago 143, pi. XLIIL, figs. 1, 2.) 

 Species. 



a'. "Wing less than 4.50 ; tarsus less than 1.00 ; web between outer and middle toes 

 extending to or beyond second joint of the latter ; lateral membrane of all 

 the toes broad and distinctly " scalloped." (Subgenus Plialaropus.) 



Adult female in summer: Above 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 nock 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 white and grayish. Winter j^luviage : 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 beneath 

 eye, across ear-coverts mixed dusky and grayish white; upper parts 

 chieflj' grayish ; sides of chest washed or clouded with grayish. Young : 

 Top of head dusky, with or without streaks; back and scapulars black- 



