LOBIPES. 149 
times black, but the feathers of the back and scapulars have spots or 
margins of white. 
“Young female.—ls at first like the young male and has the same 
yellow-spotted wing-coverts; the hind neck is gray, vermiculated with 
dusky like the male, and the markings on the throat are similar to those 
of the latter sex. When the chestnut color is first assumed, it is of a 
dull tint, and is obscured by dusky margins to the feathers; the chin is 
white, and the throat and fore neck uniform brown, with which the 
chestnut feathers are often mingled.” (Sharpe.) 
“Fairly abundant about the rice-fields. Easy to bring down on account 
of its comparatively slow and heavy flight. Resident in the Philippines. 
We obtained its nest and eggs in Siquijor.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Subfamily PHALAROPODIN &. 
Small sandpipers with the toes lobed, and posterior side of tarsus 
serrated. 
Genus LOBIPES Cuvier, 1817.* 
Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not widened toward tip; nostrils 
separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth 
of upper mandible at base. 
125. LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnzus). 
NORTHERN PHALAROPE, 
Tringa lobata LINN&HUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758) ; ed. 12 (1766), 1, 149. 
Phalaropus lobatus Ringway, Man. North Am. Bds. (1887), 144. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 698; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 167; Oarrs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 70. 
Basilan Straits (Mearns). Arctic regions; in winter to southern oceans. 
“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 neck 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 with white and grayish. 
“Winter plumage.—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 chiefly grayish; sides of 
chest washed or clouded with grayish. 
“Young.—Top of head dusky, with or without streaks; back and 
scapulars blackish, distinctly bordered with buff or ochraceous; middle 
*Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1907), 24, 20. 
