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Male, female, young. 

 Wilson's Phalarope 



224. WILSON'S PHALAROPE. 

 Steganopus tricolor. 



Range. Interior of temperate North America, 

 breeding from the latitude of Iowa, northward, 

 and wintering south of the United States. 



This is the most handsome species of the fam- 

 ily, being of a very graceful form, of a grayish 

 and white color, with a broad stripe through the 

 eye and down the neck, where it fades insensibly 

 into a rich chestnut 

 color. It is an ex- 

 clusively American 

 species and is rare 

 ly found near the 

 coast. It builds its 

 nest generally in a 

 tuft of grass, the 

 nests also being of Brownish buff, 



grass. The eggs 



are of a brownish or greenish buff color, spotted 

 and blotched with black and brown. Size 1.30 x 

 .90. Data. Larimore, N. D., May 30, 1897. Nest 

 a shallow depression, scratched in the sand, under 

 a tuft of grass on an island. Collector, T. F. 

 Eastgate. 



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