78 BIKDS OP ILLFNOIS. 



Sp. Ch ae. a dult, summer plumage : Entire lower parts deep purplish cinnamon ; sides 

 of head white. Back and scapulars light ochraceoas or buff, striped with black; wing- 

 coverts deep bluish plumbeous, the gi-eater widely tipped with pure white; remiges plum- 

 beous-dusky. Lining of the wing white, bordered exteriorly with dusky grayish. Male: 

 Crown and n,ipe strcalced, Uke the back; white on side of head not well defined. Fcinale: 

 Crown uniform plumboous-black or dark plumbeous, the white on side of the head sur- 

 rounding the eyes, and abruptly defined, the nape unstreakcd cinnamon and plumbeous. 

 Adult and young in winter: Head, neck and lower parts pure white, the occiput and a 

 space partly or completely surrounding the eyes dark plumbeous. Upp'r parts uniform 

 fine pearl-gray or light bluish plumbeous, the remiges slate-color. Young, first iihimaije : 

 Crown, nape, back. and scapulars dull black, the feathers edged with ochraeeous; \ving- 

 coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plumbeous, the middle coverts bordered with pale 

 buff, the tail-covei-ts with ochraeeous. Head (except crown) and lower parts generally, 

 white ; the throat and jugulum suffused with brownish buff. Downy young : Above, Ijright 

 tawny-butT, marked witb broad irregular stripes of black; superciliary stripe bright tawny 

 buff, the two of opposite sides separated only by a narrow and sometimes interrupted 

 dusky streak; pileum bright raw-umbor brown, bordered exteriorly with black; chin and 

 throat Ught fulvous-buff, changing to smoky buff on jugulum; rest of lower parts dull 

 whitish. 



Total length, about 7. .50 inches; wing, about 5.25-5.50; oulmen, .80-. 95; tarsus, .8IK85; 

 middle toe, .75-.80. 



The Red Phalarope occurs in Illinois as a rare migrant. Its 

 summer home is in the Arctic regions, which it leaves after the 

 assumption of its winter plumage, which is so unlike that of 

 summer as to give the bird a totally different appearance. 



Genus PHALAROPITS Brisson. 

 Subgenus Phalaropus. 



Fhalaropus Briss. Orn. vi, 17(i0, 12. Type, by elimination, Tringa lobata Linn. 

 Lohlpes " CUY. Beg. Anim. 1817." Type, Tringa kyperhorea Ij1'SN.,= T lobata Linn. 

 Ohak. Similar to Grymophilus, but bill subulate, and the nostrils strictly basal. 



Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.) 



NOBIHERN FHALABOFE. 



Tringa lohata Linn. S. N. od. 10, i, 1758, 148: cd. 12, i, 17fi6, 210. 

 Lohipes lobatus B. B. & B. Water B.N. Am. i, 1S84, 330. 

 Phalaropus lobatus Stejn. Auk, ii, 1885, 183.— A. O. U. Cheek List, 18Si;. No. 223.— EiDOw. 



Man. N. Am. B. 1.S87. 115. 

 Tringa hynerborea LiNN. S. N. ed. 12, i, 17ri(i, 24!) (based on Faun. Suec. 173; Edw. 14.1; Will. 



270; Ray. 132.— Plialarniins cinereus Bniss. Orn. vi, .5). 

 Phalaropus hypi-rhorcns (male) LATH. Ind. Oin. ii. 1790, 775 (excl. syn.; supposed female 



=0. fulicarius).—tivTT. Man. ii. 1834, 2:19.- Aun. Orn. Biog. iii, 18a'i. 118; v, 1S3.». 595, 



pi. 215.— Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858. 706.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859. No. 520. 

 I.obipes hyperborens Cuv. Whs;. Anim. i. ed. 1829. 5;^2.— AUD. Synop.l8S9,2IM; B. Am. v. 1842, 



2!)5, pi. ;M0.— CouES, Key. 1872, 218; Chock List, 1873, No. 410; 2d ed. 1882. No. 003; B. N. 



W. 1874, 4l!9.— KiDOW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1882, No. 564. 



