166 GRALLATORES. LOBIPES. LOBEFOOT. 



Phalaropes, and equally well adapted to resist the effects of 

 the element in which they chiefly move. They breed upon 

 the margins of lakes, and, like the other birds of this family, 

 lay four eggs. Aquatic insects, molluscae, &c. compose their 

 food, which they generally obtain on or very near the sur- 

 face of the water. 



RED LOBEFOOT. 



LOBIPES HYPERBOREA, Cuvier. 



PLATE XXVIII. FIGS. 1. 2. 



Lobipes hyperborea, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 169. pL 21 Flem. Br. Anim. 



1. 100. sp. 134. 



Le Lobipede a hauss col, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 495. 

 Phalaropus hyperboreus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 775. 1 Temm. Man. 



d'Ornith. 2. 709 Sabine, Linn. Trans. 12. 535 Saline, in Frank. 



Jour. Append. 690. 



Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. 1. 249. 9 Gmel Syst. 1. 675. sp. 9. 

 Phalaropus cinereus, Briss* Ornith. 6. 1-5. 2. 

 Phalarope cendre' ou Phalarope de Siberie, Buff. Ois, 8. 224. 

 Rothhalsiger Wassertreter, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 5. 373 Meyer, Tass- 



chenb. Deut. 2. 417. 



Cock Coot-footed Tringa, Edward, Glean, pi. 148. 

 Red Phalarope, Br. Zool. 2. 219. t. 76. Lath. Syn. 5. 270. 1. Mont. 



Ornith. Diet and Sup. Append Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 109 Will. 



Amer. Ornith. 9. 75. 

 Phalaropus "Williamsii, Simmonds, in Linn. Trans. 8. 264. 



f Phalaropus fuscus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 776. sp. 4 Briss. Ornith. 6. 

 18.3. 

 Uringa fusca, Gmel. Syst. 1. 675. 

 Gemeine Wassertreter, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 2. 217- 

 Coot-footed Tringa, Edward, pi. 46. 

 Brown Phalarope, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 414 Lath. Syn. 5. 274. 4. 



PROVINCIAL Water Snipe. 



IN the Orkneys, and the other northern Scottish islands, 

 the Red Lobefoot is a common species, inhabiting, during the 

 summer, the numerous small fresh- water lakes, upon the mar- 

 gins of which it breeds and rears its young. In these places it 

 goes under the name of the Water Snipe, from its aquatic ha- 

 bits, for it is more frequently seen swimming or floating upon 

 the surface of the water, than running or reposing on the 



