BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 



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WILSON'S PHALAROPE {Steganopus tricolor). 



Length. — 8.25 to 9.50 inches. 



Adult Female in Spring. — Above dark ashy gray, paler on the crown and 

 rump and whitening on back of neck; throat, cheeks, Hne over eye 

 and small crescent below it white; a dusky stripe from bill through and 

 below eye, becoming black behind and extending down side of upper 

 neck, where it changes to chestnut or dark wine red, widening there 

 and extending down over side of neck, shoulders and back; a similar 

 chestnut stripe below it just above wing; wings grayish brown; outer 

 feathers (primaries) dusky; below white, the fore neck and breast 

 tinged with pale chestnut, the latter slightly clouded on sides; bill 

 long, slender, acute and black; legs, feet and iris dark. 



Adult Male. — Similar, but smaller, duller, paler and not so strikingly 

 marked; less black, light ash, white and chestnut; back and wings 

 mainly brown, streaked with black. 



Adult and Young in Fall. — General tone of plumage like that of the fall 

 Sanderling; light ashy gray above, darkening on wings and tail; occa- 

 sionally a few blackish feathers; upper tail coverts white; sides of head 

 and neck white, with a dusky line from eye changing to cloudiness on 

 sides of neck; below white; bill and eye dark; legs dull yellow. In 

 summer the young are brownish black above, which soon gives way to 

 fall plumage. 



Notes. — A soft, trumpeting y7ia, yna (Chapman). 



Season. — A rare transient in May, August, September and October. 



Range. — - North and South America. Breeds from central Washington, 

 Central Alberta and Lake Winnipeg south to eastern California and 

 northwestern Indiana; winters from central Chile and central Argen- 

 tina south to Falkland Islands; casual in migration on Pacific coast 

 from southern British Columbia to Lower California, and on Atlantic 

 coast from Maine to New Jersey. 



