AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ORDER VIII. PINNATIPEDES. PINNATED FEET. 



Genus LXXXII. PHALAROPUS. PHALAROPE. 



Species I. P. FULTCARIDS. 



GRAY PHALAROPE.* 



[Plate LXXIII. Fig. 4.] 



'Pringa Fulicaria, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, torn, i., p. 14S, 6. — Trinpa glacialu, Gmei,. 

 Syst. I., p. 67.5, 2. T. hyperborea, var. 6, Id. p. 676. — Le Pfialarope, Briss. Orn. 

 VI., p. 12, No. 1. Phahiropus rvfe-icens, Id. p. 20. — P/ialaropns lobatvs, Lath. 

 Iiid. Orn. p. 776, 2. P. glacialis. Id. No. 3. Red Phalarnpe, fem. Geii. Syn. 

 III., p. 271. Grai/ Phalarope, Id. p. 272, 2. Plain Phalarope, Id. p. 273, 3.— 

 Gi-ay Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 218. Arci. Zool. No. 412. Red Phala- 

 rope, Id. No. 413. Plain Phalarope, Id. No. 415. Red Coot-footed Tringa, 

 Edwards, pi. 142. Gray Coot-footed Tringa, Id. Gleanings, PI. 308. — Le 

 Phalarope rouge. Buff. Ois. viii., p. 225. Le Phalarope dfesions de^iteUs, Id. p. 

 226. — Gray Phalarupe, Montagu, Orn. Die. and Appendix to Sup. — Bewick, ii., 

 p. 132. — Le Phalarope gris. Cur. Reg. An. i., p. 492. Le Phalarope rouge. Id. 

 Ibid. — Phaloropus platyrhinrlms, Temm. Man. d' Orn. p. 712. 



Bill pretty stout and ivide, slightly compressed at the tip, depressed 

 on the lower half, upper mandible carinate ; nostrils subovate, a short 

 distance from the base ; feet semipalmate, lobes of the toes broad and 

 greatly scalloped ; hind toe barely touching the ground. 



Bill reddish orange at the base, the remainder black, an inch long; 

 front and crown black, barred transversely with lines of white ; throat, 

 sides of the neck, and lower parts, white, thickly and irregularly barred 

 with curving dashes of reddish chocolate ; upper parts of a deep cine- 

 reous blue, streaked with brownish yellow and black ; the black scapu- 

 lars broadly edged with brownish yellow ; wings and rump dark cine- 

 reous ; greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a large 

 band ; primaries nearly black, and crossed with white below the coverts ; 

 tail plain olive, middle of its coverts black, their sides bright brownish 



Named in the plate Bed Phalarope. 



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