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ORDER LIMICOLuE. SHORE BIRDS. 



FAMILY PHALAROPODIDJE. PHALAROPES. 



GENUS PHALAROPUS BRISSON. 



Phalaropus BRISSON, On., VI, 1760, 12. Type, by tautonymy, [Phalaro- 

 pus] phalaropus BRISSON = Tringa fidicaria LINN^US. 



Phalaropus fulicarius (LiNN^us). Red Phalarope. [222.] 



Tringa fidicaria LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



RANGE. Northern and Southern hemispheres. In North America 

 breeds from northern Alaska, Melville Island, and northern Ellesmere 

 Land south to mouth of the Yukon, northern Mackenzie, central Kee- 

 watin, Hudson Strait, and southern Greenland; winter home un- 

 known but probably on the oceans, at least as far south as Falkland 

 and Juan Fernandez islands; migrates along both coasts of United 

 States; casual in migration in interior south to Colorado, Kansas, 

 Illinois, and Maryland. 



GENUS LOBIPES CUVIER. 



Lobipes CUVIER, Regne Animal, I, 1817, 495. Type, by orig desig., 

 Tringa hyperborea LINN^US = Tringa lobata LINNJSUS. 



L6bipes lob&tus (LiNN^us). Northern Phalarope. [223.] 



Tringa lobata LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148, 824. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



RANGE. Northern and Southern hemispheres. In North America 

 breeds from northern Alaska, Melville Island, and central Greenland 

 south to Aleutian Islands (including Near Islands), valley of the Upper 

 Yukon, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, southern James Bay, 



