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PHALAKOPES. 



1. RED PHALAEOPE, C. FULICARITJS. 8.00; summer 

 female, beneath, purplish-cinnamon extending around on 

 neck behind; sides of head, white; top of head, dark plum- 

 beous ; back, light reddish or buff streaked with black ; rump, 

 white, fig. 75. Summer male, smaller, duller, with the top 

 of head streaked with bufTy. Winter adult, head, neck, and 

 lower parts, white ; occiput and space 

 around eye, plumbeous ; back, pearl-gray. 

 Young, above dull black ; wing coverts and 

 rump, plumbeous with all of the feathers 

 more or less tinged with ochraceous ; white 

 beneath, throat and breast tinged with 

 brownish-buff. Downy young, bright red- 

 dish-buff above, darkest on crown, every, 

 where broadly striped with black; dull/ 

 white beneath with chin, throat, and chest* 

 tinged with reddish-buff. Northern hem- 

 isphere, breeding far northward; migrat- 

 ing southward in winter in IS". A. as far as O, A, a 1 



Fig. 74. the Middle States ; not uncommon off 



the coast of N. E. in Sep., Oct., and 

 May; rare in the interior. 



b. Priiiged-footed Phalaropes. 

 Steganopus. 



A, a, 1. 



Bill, long, slender and awJ-like, fig. 77 ; lateral membrane 



of toes, continuous 

 and fringe-like, fig. 

 76. Summer fe- 

 male, white below, 

 reddish on neck on- 



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1. WILSON'S 

 PHALAKOPE, 



S. TRICOLOR. 9.00; 

 white beneath, pale 

 bufXy-red on neck ; 



Fig. 75. 



A, b, 1. 1-4. 



