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Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus) 

 Northern Phalarope 



Pbte 30 



Tringa lobata Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:148,824 



Lobipes hyperboreus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 269, fig. 203, 204 



Phalaropus lobatus A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 232 



lobd'tus, Lat., lobed 



Description. Bill short, slender, straight, compressed and pointed 

 at the tip ; legs short ; tibia only slightly denuded ; toes with scalloped mem- 

 brane. Female in snmmer: Upper parts in general plumbeous, the back and 

 scapulars with four stripes of ocherous, and the feathers of the back and 

 wing coverts narrowly edged with white; sides of the neck bright reddish 

 ■chestnut; throat and eyelids white ; a white band in the wing formed by the 

 white ends of the greater coverts; primaries blackish, the shafts white; 

 tail dusky grayish, the outer feathers lighter and narrowly edged with 

 whitish; upper tail coverts white and dusky; under parts white, mixed with 

 bluish gray on the breast and sides; bill and feet black. Male: Showing 

 similar pattern and colors, but much duller and the upper parts mixed 

 with grayish brown; smaller than female. Winter plumage: Upper parts 

 light grayish, the bufify stripes of summer replaced with whitish ones; front 

 and sides of head and neck, and under parts mostly white; a dusky patch 

 back of the eye, and the sides of neck washed with buffy where the red 

 appears in summer. 



Young: Upper parts blackish, edged with buffy, grayish on the back, 

 ■scapulars and wing coverts ; top of head and neck slaty ; below white ; sides 

 •of neck and breast tinged with light brownish ; feet lighter. 



Length 7-7.5 inches; extent 13.5; wing 4.15-4.5; tail 2; tarsus .7 8-. 82; 

 middle toe and claw .85 ; bill .8-.88. Smaller dimensions are of males. 



The Northern, or Red-necked phalarope, is holarctic in distribution, 

 breeding in high latitudes and migrating southward in winter to temperate 

 and tropical regions. It is our commonest phalarope, occumng with 

 considerable regularity both on the ocean and inland waters. New York 

 specimens are as follows : 



Rockaway, L. L Aug. 24, 1874; Aug. 1875. Lawrence, Forest and Stream, 10: 235 

 Troy, N. Y. av. F. S. Webster 

 Keuka lake, N. Y. May 1874. Auburn List, p. 31 

 ■Owasco Lake, N. Y. (Several). June 1877. Auburn List, p. 31 

 Black river, Lewis co., N. Y. Sept. 6, 1877. Merriam, N. O. C. Bui. 3: 54 

 Eooneville, N. Y. About " « 



