62 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Subfamily Fulicinae. Coots. 



*221. FuLiCA AMERICANA Gmel. American Coot. 

 FidUa atra. Coot. Mud hen. 



Geog. Dist. — From northern South America through West 

 Indies and whole of North America to Canada, rarely to Alaska 

 and Greenland. Breeds from Texas and Louisiana northward 

 and winters from the Southern States southward. 



In Missouri the Coot is a very generally distributed and com- 

 mon transient visitant from the middle of March to April 20 and 

 from October 10 to November 25. Also a not very rare summer 

 resident and breeder in suitable localities, not only in the flood 

 plains of the larger rivers, but in the prairie and Ozark regions 

 and reported as breeding at Montgomery City (Parker), War- 

 rensburg (Smithson), Independence (Tindall), Pierce City (Nehr- 

 ling). White River (Philo Smith Jr., Eureka Springs), Fayette 

 (Kilpatrick). 



Order LIMICOLAE. Shore Birds. 

 Family Phalaropidae. Phalaropes. 



222. Crymophilus FULiCARius (Linn.). Red Phalarope. 



Tringa fuUcaria. Phalaropus fulicarius. Gray Phalarope. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding 

 within the Arctic regions and coming south in winter chiefly 

 coastwise to the Carolinas on the Atlantic and Cape St. Lucas 

 on the Pacific ; rare in the interior as far south as the Ohio Valley. 



Has been taken two or three times in the Mississippi River 

 between Missouri and Illinois by Mr. Chas. K. Worthen of War- 

 saw, 111. Also recorded from Lawrence, Kan., about 40 miles 

 from our state line, where a young female was taken November 

 5, 1905. Other records are from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota and Wyoming (September 14, 1897). 



223. Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.). Northern Phalarope. 



Tringa lobata. Lobipes lobatus. Tringa hyperborea. Phalaropus hyper- 

 boreus. Lobipes hyperboreu^. Red-necked Phalarope. Gray Phalarope 

 (winter). 



Geog. Dist. — Northern hemisphere, breeding in America from 

 Labrador and Greenland both in wooded country and on Barren 



