I'HALAROPODID.E — THE PHALAKOPES. 79 



Hab. Northern portions of the northern hemisphere; breeding very far north, an-i not 

 penctratine far within the tropics in winter ; chiefly, but not strictly, maritime. In America, 

 recorded from the following southern loeaUties: Bermudas; Dueilas, Guatemala; Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec. 



Sp. Chak. Adult: Above dark plumbeous, the back striped with ocliraceous; wings 

 dusky, the greater coverts widely tipped with white; lower parts chiefly white, the neck 

 with more or less rufous. Female, with the sides of the nock and jugulum uniform cinna- 

 mon-rufous, the plumbeous above pure and cohtinuous. Male, wifh the rufous conflnod 

 ehipfly to thn sides of the neck, the jugulum being mixed white and grayish, tinged with 

 rufous; plumbeous above duller and less continuous than in the female. Yoiin(i,flrxt i)lina- 

 age: Crown plumbeous-dusky, with or without streaks; back and scapulars black, dis- 

 tinctly streaked with bulT or ochraceous; wings as in a'ult, but middle coverts bordered 

 with buff or whitish. Forehead, supra-auricular stripe, lores, and lower parts white, the 

 jugulum and sides of breast sometimes suffused with dull browni.sh; auriculars dusky. 

 Doiiny young : Above, bright tawny, the rump with throe parallel stripes of black, enclos- 

 ing two of lighter fulvous than the ground-color; crown covered by a triangular patch of 

 m tiled darker brown, bounded irregularly with blackish; a black Uno over ears, not reach- 

 ing to the eye; throat and rest of head Ught tawny-fulvous; rest of lower parts white, be- 

 coming grayish posteriorly. 



Total length, about 7.00 inches; wing, 1.00-1.15; cuhnen. .80-."i0; tarsus, .75-.85; middle toe, 

 .65-.70. 



This species, which is a rather rare migrant in Illinois, is es- 

 sentially similar in its habits and distribution to the Red Phal- 

 arope. Mr. Xfslson's record concerning it is as follows: 



"Rather rare migrant the first of May, and the last of Sep- 

 tember and first of October. Fi-equents slow sti-eams or marshy 

 pools, where, swimming gracefully from one patch of floating 

 weeds to another, it obtains its food. It is quite gentle and 

 unsuspicious, and I have approached in a boat within five yards 

 of one without its showing the least concern." 



Subgenus Steganopus Vieillot. 



.^teaanoiiiis ViEiLL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. .\.\.\ii,lsi'.i, i:!C. Type. .S'. trici>lor Vieill. 



Chab. Bill slender and subulate, with strictly basal nostrils, as in PImlaropus ; web be- 

 tween outer and middle toes not reaching to second joint, the lateral membrane of all the 

 toes narrow and scarcely scalloped. 



Phalaropus tricolor (Vicill.) 



WILSON'S FHALABOPE. 



I'ltalamiiiis lohntiiK WiLS. Am. Orn. ix. 1X25, 72. pi. 73. Ilg. 3 {ner Tringa liihala LiNN). 

 Phalariijms wilsnni Sahine. Ar>p. Frankl. Journ. IsZf.iifll.— Sw. & UicH. F. B.-A. ii, 1S)2. 

 405, pl.fifi.-NuTT. Man. il. \mi. 2r..-Aui). Orn. Blog. iii. IW.. 100. pi. 251. -Cash. In 

 Baird's B. N. Am. I«X. 705.— Haiiid. Cat, N. Am. B. Utin. No. 519. 

 Phalaroiius {flnlopntliun) irihimi BoNAP. Synop. 1X2X. ;K2.— NuTT. Man. ii, 1831. 215. 

 Lobipea iriiioni \VD. Synop. ISJ'.1. 241 ; B Am. v, 1812, 290, ))l. 341. 



