264 PHALAROPES. 



ratively short; tibise naked for a short space 

 above the tarsal joint ; tarsus somewhat com- 

 pressed; toes before, at the base, connected, 

 and on their edges fringed with a lobed mem- 

 brane ; hallux slender, naked. 



Type, P. lobatus. Northern Europe, the Arctic 

 Circle, Northern Asia. 



Note. Breed on the sea shore; swim, and ven- 

 ture far out to sea ; undergo a seasonal change. 



THE second form was separated by Cuvier, under 

 the title of Lobipes, and contains two species, that of 

 Britain, and an American bird, L. Wilsonii^ given 

 also in ornithological works, under the titles of 

 "Frenatus"* and "Incanus."1[ In L. Wilsonii, the 

 the form of the bill is intermediate, being straight, 

 depressed for its whole length, and slightly dilated 

 towards the tip ; the tarsi are remarkably flattened, 

 and with the whole leg and foot are proportionally 

 more slender than in L. hyperborea ; the lobed mem- 

 brane to the toes is also less broadly developed. 



LOBIPES, Cuvier. Generic characters. Bill 

 proportionally longer than in Phalaropus, slen- 

 der, straight, grooved; depressed for half its 

 length, at the tip subulate, the mandible there 

 slightly deflexed, nostrils lateral, basal, sur- 



* Temminck, pi. color. 



f Jardine and Selby, Illust. of Omith. 



