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Adult male in breeding plumage — Resembles the female, but less 

 brilliant ; the feathers on the crown and back of neck, marked 

 with yellowish brown ; white on the sides of the head is less 

 defined ; feathers on the abdomen, tipped with white. 



Adult male and female in winter plumage — Back of head and about 

 the eyes, with a line on the nape and upper part of back, black ; 

 rest of head, neck, and under parts, white ; back and scapulars, 

 dark gray ; wings and rump, brownish black ; wing-coverts and 

 secondaries with white edges ; tail, brownish black with pale 

 outer feathers ; bill, dark ; legs and feet, grayish olive. 



Young — Top of head and upper parts, dull black, the feathers with 

 brownish edges ; wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 lead color ; middle coverts, edged with buff, tail-coverts with 

 brown ; head (except the crown) and lower parts, white ; throat, 

 tinged with buff. 



Downy young — Above, bright tawny buff, striped with black ; 

 crown, bright umber-brown, bordered with black ; chin and 

 throat, light fulvous buff, changing to white on abdomen. 



Measurements — Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 5.50 inches ; tail, 2.50 

 inches ; tarsus, .90 inch ; culmen, .85 inch. 



Eggs — Three to four in number, greenish drab, marked with blotches 

 of sepia-brown, measure 1.15 by .85 inches. 



Habitat — Northern shores of both continents. In North America 

 breeds north of 68*^ on the coast of Greenland, south of 75° in 

 Cumberland, in Melville Peninsula, on the shores of the Arctic 

 Ocean at Franklin Bay, Point Barrow, Cape Prince of Wales, and 

 south to the Yukon Delta, Alaska, and Hudson Bay. Ranges in 

 winter south on the oceans from the coast of South Carolina and 

 California to Chili, Argentina, and Hawaii, and casually in the 

 migrations in the interior of the United States to western New 

 York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Idaho, and Wyoming. 

 In the eastern hemisphere breeds in Iceland, Spitzbergen, and 

 northern Siberia, and has been found in winter as far south as 

 the coast of Morocco, India, China, and New Zealand. 



The red phalarope is a companion of the whale, 

 and its presence in large numbers at sea is a wel- 

 come sight to whalers. As soon as the whale 



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