248 PHALAROPODIDH, PHALAROPES.— GEN. 198, 199, 200. 
198. Genus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 
Wilson’s Phalarope. Membranes straight-edged; bill very slender, 
subulate. Length 9-10; wing 5; tail 2; bill, tarsus, and middle toe, each, 
over 1, black. Adult ashy; upper tail coverts and under parts white ; 
a black stripe from the eye down the side of the neck spreading into rich 
purplish-chestnut, which also vari- 
egates the back, and shades the 
throat; young lacking these last 
colors. N., Am. Wiis: 1x, 725 
pl. 735, £35 =Newrs,piijeeot oe 
Aup., v, 299, pl. 341; Cass. in 
Bp:;-705..2 2.8 2~ 4 Oo WESONES 
199. Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 
Fic. 161. Wilson’s Phalarope (head); Northern . 
Phalarope (foot). Northern Phalarope. Mem- 
branes scalloped; bill very slender, subulate. Length about 7; wing 44; 
tail 2; bill, tarsus and middle toe, each, under 1, black. Adult dark 
opaque ash or grayish-black, the back variegated with tawny; upper tail 
coverts and under parts mostly white; side of the head and neck with a 
broad stripe of rich chestnut, generally meeting on the jugulum; breast 
otherwise with ashy-gray ; young lacking the chestnut. Northern N. Am., 
U.S. during the migration. Bonar., Am. Orn. iv, 82, pl. 25, f. 2; Nurr., 
ii, 239; Aup., v, 295, pl. 340; Cass. in Bp., 706. . . HYPERBOREUS. 
200. Genus PHALAROPUS. 
Red Phalarope. Membranes scalloped ; bill comparatively stout, flattened, 
with lancet-shaped tip. Length 7-8; wing 5; tail 22; bill 1, yellowish, 
black-tipped; tarsus #, greenish. Adult with the under parts purplish- 
chestnut, of variable intensity, white in the young; above variegated with 
blackish and tawny. Northern N. Am., U. S. during the migrations. 
Wits., ix, 75, pl. 73, f.4; Nurv., ii, 236; Aup., v, 291, pl. 339); Casae 
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Family SCOLOPACIDA. Snipe, etc. 
Snipe and their allies form a well-defined and perfectly natural assemblage, one 
of the two largest limicoline families, agreeing with plover in most essential 
respects, yet well distinguished® from the pluyialine birds. In general, the bill is 
much elongated, frequently several times longer than the head, and in those cases 
in which it is as short as in plover, it does not show the particular, somewhat 
pigeon-like, shape described under Charadriine, being slender and soft-skinned 
throughout. It is generally straight, but frequently curved up or down. The 
nasal grooyes, always long and narrow channels, range from one-half to almost the 
whole length of the bill; similar grooves usually occupy the sides of the under 
mandible; the interramal space is correspondingly long and narrow, and nearly 
naked. This length, slenderness, grooving, and peculiar sensitiveness are the prime 
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