Capt. Sabine's Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, ^-c. 53.5 



coming fainter in North America, from the effect of climate, is 

 not correct. Montagu mentions that he has seen several of these 

 birds which had been killed in England, in which the collar was 

 extinct. 



11. Pmalaropus Hyperboreus. Red Phalarope. 



P. Hyperboreus. Temm. 457. Lath. Lid. Oni. ii. 775. — Tringa Hyperborea. Gmel. i. 

 675. MU/l. no. 196. — Tringa Lobata. Fabr. 109. Faun. Siiec. 64.— Red Phalarope. 

 Lalh. St/ri. v. 270 <^- 271. Br. Zool. ii. 125. Jrct. Zool. ii. 494. Mont. Diet. ■ 

 Supp. £)• Jpp. Wil. Am. Orn. ix. 75. 



Immature. Phalaropus Fuscus. Lath. Lid. Oni. ii. 776.— Tringa Fusca. 

 Gmel. i. 675. — Tringa Lobata. Brun. no. 171. — Brown Phalarope. Lath. Spi. v. ■ 

 274. Arct. Zool. ii. 495. 



A small flock of these birds were met with on the west coast 

 of Greenland, in latitude 71", in June. A considerable variation 

 takes place in the ferruginous colouring of the sides of the neck, 

 in some instances the colour meets at the breast, and in others il 

 does not; it has been considered that this difference is characteristic 

 of the sex, but I am inclined to think that such opinion is errone- 

 ous. Some authors have su pposed the Tringa Fulicaria of Linneus's 

 Systema NaturcB and of Briinnich to be the female of this species, 

 and have consequently described it as differing extremely : but 

 I have had no hesitation in placing the Tringa Fulicaria as a 

 synonym of the true Tringa Lobata (not the T. Lobata of Fabricius, 

 which is the present bird). The Phalaropus Fuscus with its syno- 

 nyms is considered as the immature bird, on the authority of 

 Temminck and the Fauna Suecica; but great confusion has been' 

 made in the synonyms referred to by other writers. I am not ac- 

 quainted with the winter plumage of this species; but think it 

 probable that the ferruginous tints are peculiar to the summer 

 months, as the specimens killed in June were very irregularly and . 

 uncertainly marked. 



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