ORDKR VIII. PINNATIPEDES. PINNATED FEET. 



GENUS 82. PHALAROPUS. PHALAROPE. 



SPECIES 1. P. FULICARIUS. 



GRAY PHALAROPE.* 



[Plate LXXIIL Fig. 4.] 



Tringa Futicaria, LINN. Syst. ed. 10, torn, i, p. 148, 6. Tringa 

 glacialis, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 675, 2. T. hyperborea, var. b, Id. p. 

 676. Le Phalarope, BRISS. Orn. vi, p. 12, No. 1. Phalaropus 

 rufescens, Id. p. 20. Phalaropus lobatus, LATH. Ind. Orn. p 

 776, 2. P.glacialis, Id. JVo. 3. #ed Phalarope, fern. Gen. Syn. 

 3, p. 271. Gray Phalarope, Id. p. 272, 2. P/ain Phalarope t Id. 

 p. 273, 3. Gray Phalarope. PENN. JSri. ZooZ. JVo. 218. .flrcj. 

 ZooZ. JVb. 412. l^erf Phalarope, Id. JVo. 413. P/aiw Phalarope. 

 Id. JVo. 415. ^PC? Coot-footed Tringa, EDWARDS, pL 142. Gray 

 Coot-footed Tringa, Id. Gleanings, PI. 308. Le Phalarope 

 rouge, BUFF. Ois. vm, p. 225. Zg Phalarope afestons dentelcs, 

 Id. p. 226, Gray Phalarope, MONTAGU, Orn. Die. and Appen- 

 dix to Sup. BEWICK, n, p. 132. Le Phalarope gris, Cuv. 

 Reg. Jin. i, p. 492. Le Phalarope rouge, Id. ibid. Phaloropus 

 platyrhinchus, TEMM. Man. d'Orn. p. 712. PEALE'S Museum, 

 JVo. 4088. 



BILL pretty stout and wide, slightly compressed at the tip, 

 depressed on the lower half, upper mandible carinate; nostrils 

 subovate, a short distance from the base; feet semipalmate, 

 lobes of the toes broad and greatly scalloped; hind toe barely 

 touching the ground. 



Bill reddish orange at the base, the remainder black, an inch 

 long; front and crown black, barred transversely with lines of 



* Named in the plate Red Phalarope. 



