118 EEPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



and that one was shot September, 1868, at the mouth of Big Timber 

 Creek, by Mr. B. A. Hoopes. Mr. F. M. Chapman saw a number of 

 specimens of this and the following species from a vessel well off the 

 Delaware coast on May 9th, 1897, 1 and Mr. W. E. D. Scott saw five 

 Phalaropes, species not determined, five miles off Long Beach May 

 20th, 1877. 2 The only recent records that I have from New Jersey are 

 one killed at Ocean City May 6th, 1907 (W. H. Werner), and another 

 obtained by Mr. H. W. Hand at Cape May, May 3d, 1909. 



Dr. B. H. Warren mentions two in the possession of C. D. Wood, 

 shot in New Jersey. 3 



223 Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus). 

 Northern Phalarope. 



Adults in spring. Length, 7-8. Wing, 4-4.40. Above, dusky, streaked on 

 the back with buff, a narrow white wing bar ; lower parts, white ; breast, more 

 or less dusky (chestnut in female) ; a patch of rusty chestnut on the side of 

 the neck. 



Adults in autumn. Gray above, white beneath ; forehead and line over the 

 eye, white. 



Young in first autumn. Dusky above, with buff edgings ; forehead and lower 

 parts, white ; breast somewhat clouded with dusky. 



Pelagic, occurring off shore regularly during migrations, and occa- 

 sionally coming in to the coast or up the rivers. It is more fre- 

 quently seen than either of the other species in New Jersey, occurring 

 in May and September. 



Mr. Chapman observed them off the coast of Delaware May 9th, 

 1897. 4 



Specimens have been obtained in the State as follows : 



One shot by Dr. C. C. Abbott at the mouth of Bancocas Creek prior 

 to 1868; one obtained May, 1892, on Delaware Bay, and mounted 

 by C. A. Voelker; 5 two obtained on Peek's Beach (Ocean City) May 

 22d and May 23d, 1894, by L. F. Bowers and F. L. Burns; 6 one shot 

 by A. P. Willets September 13th, 1895, at Anchoring Island, near 



1 Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc., N. Y., X., p. 2. 

 2 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 224. 

 Birds of Penna., p. 77. 

 * Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc., N. Y., X., p. 2. 

 B Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 69. 

 Auk, 1895, p. 189. 



