BIRDS OF NEW YORK 2gi 



Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus) 

 Northern Phalarope 



PI:;te 20 



'Tringa lobata Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. lo. 1758. 1:148,824 



Lobipes hyperboreus DeKay. Zool. X. V. 1844. pt 2, p. 269, fig. 203, 204 



P h a 1 a r o p u s lobatus A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. ^'0. 232 



loba'tus, Lat., lobcd 



Description. Bill short, slender, straight, compressed and pointed 

 at the tip; legs short; tibia only slightly denuded; toes with scalloped mem- 

 iDrane. Female in summer: Upper parts in general plumbeous, the back and 

 ■scapulars with four stripes of ocherous, and the feathers of the back and 

 wing coverts narrowly edged with white; sides of the neck bright reddish 

 ■chestnut; throat and eyelids white ; a white band in the wing fomied b)' the 

 white ends of the greater coverts; primaries blackish, the shafts white; 

 tail dusky grayish, the outer feathers lighter and narrowh* edged with 

 whitish; upper tail coverts white and dusky; under parts ivhitc, mixed with 

 bluish gray on the breast and sides; h\\\ and feet black. Male: Showing 

 ■similar pattern and colors, but much duller and the upper parts mixed 

 with grayish brown; smaller than female. Winter plumage: Upper parts 

 light grayish, the buffy stripes of summer replaced with whitish ones; front 

 and sides of head and neck, and under parts mostly white; a duskv patch 

 Ijack of the eye, and the sides of neck washed with bufif\- where the red 

 appears in summer. 



Young: Upper parts blackish, edged with buffy, grayish on the back, 

 ■scapulars and wing coverts ; top of head and neck slaty ; below white ; sides 

 of neck and breast tinged with light brownish ; feet lighter. 



Length 7-7.5 inches; extent 13.5; wing 4.15-4.5; tail 2; tarsus .78-.82; 

 middle toe and claw .85 ; bill .8-. 88. Smaller dimensions are of males. 



The Northern, or Red-necked phalarope, is holarctic in distribution, 

 breeding in high latitudes and migrating southward in winter to temperate 

 and tropical regions. It is our commonest j)halarope, occumng with 

 •considerable regularit\- both on the ocean and inland waters. New York 

 specimens are as follow^s: 



Rockaway, L. L Aug. 24, 1874; Aug. 1875. Lawrence, Forest and Stream, 10: 235 



Troy, N. Y. av. F. S. Webster 



Keuka lake, X. Y. May 1874. Auburn List, p. 31 



•Owasco Lake, N. Y. (Several). June 1877. Auburn List, p. 3 1 



Black river, Le^w'is co., X'^. Y. Sept. 6, 1877. Merriam, N. O. C. Bui. 3: 54 



Booneville, N. Y. About 



