THE NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY. 63 



This Phalarope breeds in very high latitudes, and its range 

 covers the northern portions of the northern hemisphere. It is 

 chiefly maritime and has been reported from as far south as 



Ohio, Illinois and Cape St. Lucas. 



* 



Genus PHALAROPTJS Brisson, 1760. 



Phalaropus lobatns (Linnaeus). Northern Phalarope. 



Tringa lolata LINNJEUS, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148 ; ed, 12, I, 1766, 249. 

 Lolipes lobatus B. B. & R., Water Birds N. Amer., I, 1884, 330. 

 Phalaropus lobatus SALVAD., Ucc. d'ltalia, II, 1872, 210 (nee Latham 

 qui Crymophilus fulicarius, nee Wilson qui Phalaropus tricolor). 

 Lobipes hyperboreus CUVDEE, Reg. Anim., I, ed. 1829, 532. 



A rare spring and fall visitant. In 1901, a male in perfect 

 fall plumage was shot on the grounds of the Calumet Heights 

 Gun Club, by Mr. R. Turtle. I identified this specimen shortly 

 after it was taken. Specimens of immature males were also 

 taken by Mr. Gerard A. Abbott at Calumet Lake, September 

 27, 1903. Mr. E. W.* Nelson says:* "Rather rare migrant 

 the first of May, and the last of September and first of October. 

 Frequents slow streams or marshy pools, where, swimming grace- 

 fully from one patch of floating weeds to another, it obtains 

 its food. It is quite gentle and unsuspicious, and I have ap- 

 proached in a boat within five yards of one without its showing 

 the least concern." 



The range of the Northern Phalarope includes the northern 

 portions of the northern hemisphere, breeding only in the far 

 north. It winters in the tropics. It is chiefly a maritime species. 



Genus STEGANOPUS Vieillot, 



Steganoyus tricolor Vieillot. Wilson's Phalarope. 



Phalaropus lobat-us WILSON, Amer. On., IX, 1825, 72, pi. 73, fig. 3 



(nee Tringa lobata Linnaeus). 



Phalaropus wilsoni SABINE, App. Frankl. Journ., 1823, 691. 

 Lobipes wilsoni AUDUBOX, Synop., 1839, 341. 

 Steganopus icUsoni COUES, Ibis, April 1865, 158. 

 Steganopus tricolor VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XXXII, 1819, 



136. 

 Phalaropus tricolor STEJNEGEB, Auk, II, 1885, 183. 



A very common summer resident in the Calumet region, 

 appearing about the twelfth of May and nesting almost immedi- 

 ately after arriving. The sites usually selected for the nests are 

 the prairies surrounding the small lakes. The birds depart for 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull. Essex Tnst., Vol. VIII, 1876, 125. 



