236 ZOOLOGY. 



Family P H AL AROP ODID AE . T he Phalaropes. 

 PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS, (Linn.) Temm. 



Nor flit rn Plialarope. 



Tringa hyperborea, LINN, Syst Nat. I, 1766, 249. 



Lobipes hyperboreus, &quot; Cuv. R. A.&quot; BON. List, 1838. AUD. Syn. 1839, 240. IB. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 295; pi. 340. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, TEMM. Man. II, 1820, 709 AUD. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 118: V, 595; pi. 215. BAIRD &CASSIN, 



Gen. Rep. Birds, 706. 



FIGURES. Buff. PL Enl. 766. Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 143, 46, 308. Aud. B. of Am. pi. 254; oct. ed. V, pi. 340. 

 Sp. CH. Bill short, straight, pointed; wings long; tail short; legs short. Mult: Neck encircled with a ring of bright 

 ferruginous, and a stripe of the same on each side; head above and neck behind sooty ash; back, wir.gs, and tail brownish 

 black, paler on the rump, mixed with bright ferruginous on the back. Tips of greater wing coverts white Sides and flanks 

 ashy, frequently mixed with reddish; throat, breast, and abdomen white; bill and legs dark. Young: Entire upper parts 

 brownish black; many feathers edged and tipped with dull yellow and ashy; under parts white; tips of greater wing coverts 

 white. Total length, 7 to 8 inches; extent, 13| to 14; wing, 4; tail, 2\; bill, 1; tarsus, \ inch. Female smallest. Iris brown; 

 legs bright slate color; bill black. 



Hab. The whole of temperate North America, Europe, Japan, (Mr. Heine, Japan Exp.,) San Francisco, California, 

 (Mr. Cutts ) 



The lobefoot passes in spring and fall through the Territory in small flocks, which associate 

 sometimes Avith the sandpipers, but seem to prefer wetter feeding grounds, wading in the 

 shallow creeks at low tide, and even swimming in the ocean several miles off shore. In August, 

 1853, I saw a pair either of this or the next species swimming on a small lake on the summit 

 of the Cascade mountains, where they probably had a nest. The young birds appear near the 

 mouth of the Columbia as early as July. C. 



Several specimens of this species I obtained on Puget Sound and Admiralty inlet in August, 

 1856. About the middle of the latter month individual birds arrive from the north, and 

 towards its close become quite abundant on the sound. They there seem to feed and live 

 principally among beds of kelp and floating patches of dead sea-weed, being rarely seen on 

 the shore. They swim well, and take wing very readily from the water. In the locality just 

 mentioned they are not at all shy, but are readily approached and shot. S. 



PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS, (Linn.) Bon. 



Red Plialnrope. 



Tringa fulicaria, LINN. Syst Nat. I, 1766, 249. 



Phalaropus fulicarius, BON. Obs. Wils. 1825, 232. IB. Syn. 1828, 341. SWAINSON, F. Bor. Amer. II, 1831, 407 

 NUTT. Man. 11,236. AUD. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 404; pi. 255. IB. Syn. 239. IB. Birds 

 Amer. V, 1842, 291; pl.-339. BAIRD & CASSIN, Gen. Rep. Birds, 707. 



FIGURES. Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 142. Wilson, Am. Orn. IX, pi. 73, fig. 4. Aud. B. of Am. pi. 255; oct. ed. V, pi. 339. 

 Sp. CH. Bill strong, flattened, widened towards the end; wings long; tail short; legs short; plumage thick and compact, 

 like the swimming birds. Adult: Head above, space around the base of the bill, throat, and back, brownish black, feathers of 

 the last edged broadly with pale ochre yellow; wings and tail ashy brown, paler on the wing coverts; greater wing coverts 

 widely tipped with white; stripe on the cheek white. Entire under parts deep brownish red, inclining to purple on the abdomen, 

 and with a glaucous cast in very mature specimens; under wing coverts and axillaries pure white; bill greenish yellow; feet 

 dark bluish brown. Young: Entire upper parts light cinereous; head above and wings darker, and mixed with blackish brown; 

 head in front, and entire under parts, white; tips of greater wing coverts white. Total length, from 7| to 8| inches; extent, 16; 

 wing, 5J; tail, 2J ; bill, 1; tarsus, J inch. Iris dark brown; bill and feet black. 

 Hab. Cntire temperate regions of North America; Asia; Europe. 



