164 GRALLATORES. LOBIPES. 



coverts greyish-black, edged with white ; the secondary 

 coverts having their tips white, and forming a bar 

 across the wings. Tertials black, with the outer web 

 margined with white. Quills greyish-black, with white 

 shafts. Tail grey, finely margined with white. Bill 

 blackish-brown. Legs and toes greenish-grey, with the 

 tarsus somewhat flattened. In this state of plumage it 

 appears to be the Phalaropus gladalis of LATHAM, 

 (Plain Phalarope of PENNANTS Arctic Zoology). The 

 specimen, as above described, was killed at the Fern 

 Islands in the autumn of 1820. 



Summer In summer, the sides and fore part of the neck, the breast 

 and under parts, are of an uniform orange-brown. The 

 streak above the eye sienna-3/ellow. Crown of the head, 

 nape of the neck, back, and scapulars of a very deep 

 olive-brown ; each feather being margined with pale red- 

 dish-brown and yellowish-brown. Wing coverts as in 

 the winter plumage. 



GENUS LOBIPES. LOBEFOOT. 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill longer than the head, strait, smooth, slightly depressed 

 at the base ; the point subulate, and rather inclined ; man- 

 dibles grooved. Tongue slender and pointed. Nostrils ba- 

 sal, lateral, linear, placed in the commencement of the man- 

 dibular furrow, and surrounded by a prominent membra- 

 nous rim. 



Wings long, and sharp-pointed ; with the first quill 

 longest, and the rest decreasing by regular gradation. 



In the legs, the lower part of the tibiae is naked ; the tar- 

 sus slender, and much compressed ; feet four-toed, three be- 

 fore and one behind. The middle toe connected with the 

 inner one as far as the first, and with the outer ones as far 



