GRALL.E PHALAROPODID^E LOBIPES. 269 



GENUS LOBIPES. Cuvier. Bonaparte. 



Bill moderate, slender, subulate to its acute tip. Upper mandible slightly curved upon the 

 lower at the tip. Nostrils sub-basal, linear. Tarsus elongated. Membranous margin of 

 the toes broad and deeply scolloped, connected by webs at the base. Hind toe short. 

 Tail short. 



THE HYPERBOREAN LOBEFOOT. 



LOBIPES HYPERBOREUS. 



PLATE XC FIGS. S03, 204. 



(STATE COLLECTION. Cabinet op the Lyceum.) 



Tringa hyperborea. Lin. p. 249. 



Lobipes id. Cuv. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 406. 



P. (Lobipes) hyperboreus. Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 342. 



Lobipes id. Id. Geog. and Comp. List. 



P. id. Bonaparte, Am. Orn. Vol. 4, p. 82, pi. 25, fig. 2. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 239. 



Hyperborean Phalarope, Lobipes id. Audubon, Birds of Am. Vol. 5, p. 295, pi. 340. 



Characteristics. Black varied with rufous; beneath white; sides of the neck and breast 

 bright rufous and ash. Winter, cinereous ; beneath white. Young, 

 brownish varied with rusty ; front and beneath white. Length, 7 - 0. 



Description. Bill very slender, acute, turned down at the tip, 0'9 long. Tarsus 0" 7: 

 tibia bare for some distance above the joint. Tail short, much rounded. 



Color. Winter plumage (fig. 204) : Front, sides of the neck, chin, throat and all beneath 

 white ; summit of the head, a patch behind the eye, and all above blackish varied with slate, 

 rufous and grey. In a male in change, in the State Collection, from Long island (fig. 203) : 

 Breast ash-grey ; a spot before the eye, and the lower eyelid white ; a tinge of deep rufous 

 on the sides of the neck, and over the upper plumage ; upper tail-coverts barred with rufous 

 and black, and tipped with white. Adult female in spring: Sides and front of the neck 

 bright orange ; front, crown, sides of the head and back slate ; scapulars and interscapulars 

 ashy brown varied with yellowish rufous, and minutely tipped with white ; wing-coverls and 

 quills dusky, the former broadly tipped with white, so as to form an oblique band across the 

 wings ; breast grey, tinged with rufous ; chin, sides of the neck and all beneath pure white ; 

 sides of the breast mottled with ash ; lateral tail-feathers white, bordered with dusky. 



Length, 6 - 5-7"5. 



This is an exceedingly rare species in this State, or at least has been little noticed. It 

 occurs abundantly in Maine (where they are termed Sea Geese), and farther north. Its pre- 

 sent ascertained geographical range is from the 19th to the 75th parallels. Has not been 

 observed in the interior. Common to the northern regions of both continents. The history 

 of its migrations not yet fully developed. 



