Order LIMICOL®. 
Family PHALAROPODID_. 
CRYMOPHILUS FULICARIUS (1L.). (222.) 
RED PHALAROPE. 
The Phalaropes are chiefly distinguished from the other 
families of the order to which they belong by their lobate feet. 
There are only three species known in this country, and they 
are divided into two genera. This one stands alone in its 
genus, but isa companion of the Northern Phalarope in its 
breeding only in the artic latitudes so far as is at present 
known. It is only a transient migrant here, seen in its spring 
migration about the 10th of May, and again in August, usually 
not far from the 25th in its southern movements. I have 
generally found them at those times occupying sandy knolls in 
the vicinity of the smaller lakes and ponds, yetnot infrequently 
on the dry, cattle grazed prairies; notably in early times in the 
vicinity of Fort Snelling and westerly from there upon the 
highlands along the Minnesota river. When looking for them 
I have seldom been disappointed in finding them very regularly 
at these times and in these localities until in late years they 
have sought more retired spots to avoid the pothunters, whose 
bags bear testimony that they still visit us at the usual times 
mentioned. They remain about from two to three weeks, when 
the maternal impulse sends them to their chosen latitudes for 
breeding in their spring migrations, and towards the south for 
food in their autumnal 
Should the time of their migration be characterized by ex- 
tremes of the weather, they remain but avery short time. I 
have seldom failed to find more or less of them in the hands of 
those indefatigable taxidermists, Messrs. Wm. Howling and 
Son, at these seasons, freshly procured for mounting to fill 
orders from distant sections for museums, or for private 
collections. Mr. Washburn’s visits to the Red river country 
were a little too early for their presence. 
