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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LISIICOLJ:. 



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B. Bill subulutL', the nostrils strictly basal. 



2. Lobipes. Fed as in J'linlaivjiiis. 



3. Stegauopus. ^^\■b between oulur und middle toes not reaching to second joint ; lateral 



membrane to all the toes narrow and scarcely scallopeil. 



Gknus PHALAROPUS, Brisson. 



Phalaropus, Biiiss. Orn. VI. 17U0, 12 (type, Tiiiiga futiairia, Vikill.). 

 " Crymnphilus, Vieill. 1816 " (Cassin). 



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I', fulkarius. 



Char. Bill flattened, broad, the Jiostrils .sub-basal ; web between outer and middle toofi 

 extending to beyond second joint tif the latter ; marginal membrane of the toes broad and deeply 

 scalloped. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. 



THE BED PHALAROFE. 



Tringafulicaria, hi^^f. S. N. I. 1766, 249 (based on Phalaropus rufisccns, Buiss. Orn. VI. 20; 



Edw.irds, i>I. 142) 

 PImhtropiis fulkariim, Bonai-. .lour. Tliilad. Aead. IV. 1825, 232. — Sw. & KicH. F. B. A. II. ISm, 



407. — Ninr. Man. II. 1834, 23(i. - Am. Orn. Bio<;. III. mn,, 404, pi. 255; Synop. ]8:i'.i, 



239 ; n. Am. V. 1842, 291, pi. 339. — Cass, in Baird's B. X. Am. 1858, 707. — Baiku, Cat. X. 



Am. H. 1859, no. 521. — Couks, Key, 1872, 248 ; Clierk List, 1873, no. 411 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 



604 ; H. X. \V. 1874, 471. — liiixiw. Xom. X. Am. B. 1882, no. 503. 

 Phalaropim riifiis, Vxhh. Zooj,'. l!osso-As. II. 1831, 205, pi. 63. 

 Phdiavopus plahjrhijncluts, Tkmm. M.m. 1815,4.59. 

 Phalaropus rufcsccns, Hr.iss. Orn. VI. 1760, 20. 

 Phalaropus griscus, Leach, Cat. Brit. Miis. 1816, 34. 



Had. Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, breeding in very high latitudes, and 

 migrating southward in winter ; chiefly maritime ; in America, recorded from as far south iis 

 Ohio, IllinoLa, .ind Cape St. Lucas, 



Sp. Char. Adult, summer plumngfi : Entire lower parts <leep purplish cinnamon ; sides of 

 head white. Back and .scapulars light ochraceous or bufl', strijied with black ; wing-coverts deep 

 bluish plumbeous, the greater widely tippeil with ptire white ; remiges plumbeous-dusky. Lining 

 of the wing white, bordered exteriorly with dusky grayish. Male, with the crown and na])e 



