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and breast, buffy-cinnamon; other lower parts., upper tail coverts, 

 nape, stripe above eyes, cheeks, chin and throat, white. Adult Mulr 

 in Summer. Smaller and much darker in color. Winter Plumage. 

 Upper parts, pale gray; lower parts, white; chest and sides of breast, 

 tinged with ashy. Immature. Brow, back and scapulars, blackish- 

 dusky; feathers margined with huffy; neck tinged with buffy. The 

 upper tail coverts, superciliary stripe, and most of lower parts being 

 white in all these plumages will greatly aid in identification. 



Length, female, 9.40-10.00; wing, 5.20-5.30; bill, 1.30-1.35; tarsus, 

 1.30-1.35; adult male, length, 8.25-9.00; wing, 4.75-4.80; bill, 1.25; 

 tarsus, 1.20-1.25. 



RANGE. America; Patagonia and Brazil, north to Oregon, Sas- 

 katchewan and Nova Scotia; chiefly inland. Breeds from northwest- 

 ern Indiana and Utah north. Winters south of United States. 



Head of Wilson's Phalarope. Natural size. 



Nest, of grass, in slight depression, in ground, in marsh or damp 

 meadows. Eggs, 3-4; grayish-buff, varying to brownish-buff, thickly 

 speckled or spotted with dark brown or brownish-black. 



Eare migrant. Summer resident northward. Common in extreme 

 northwestern part of the State. Breeds. 



They migrate in spring in late April and May. The earliest record 

 from this State is from Kouts. A specimen taken there April 30, 

 1890, by Mr. J. W. Gano is in the collection of the Cuvier Club, 

 Cincinnati, 0. (Dury.) Mr. Eliot Blackwelder found a pair in Cook 

 County, Illinois, April 21, 1895. Mr. C. E. Newlin informs me that 

 one was killed near Frankfort about May 11, 1883, and another one 

 about the same date in 1877. Five or six were seen and a pair taken 

 near Lebanon, in Boone County, May 9, 1889. They were received 

 by Mr. J. E. Beasley, who prepared them for the State Museum at 

 Indianapolis. 



Mr. Euthven Deaue shot one from a small flock at English Lake 

 May 10, 1890. Mr. C. E. Aiken has observed it at different points 

 in Lake County, notably at Water Valley. Mr. G. L. Toppan says in 

 that county it occasionally is a common summer resident, and breeds. 



