326 PE^COCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL.E. 



B. Bill subulate, the nostrils strictly basal. 

 ■2. Lobipes. Feet as iu Phalaropus. 



3. Stegauopus. Web between outer and middle toes not reaching to second joint ; lateral 

 membrane to all the toes narrow and scarcely scalloped. 



Genus PHALAROPUS, Bbisson. 



Phalaropiis, Bbiss. Orn. VI. 1760, 12 (type, Tringa fulicaria, Vieill. 

 " Crymophilus, Vieill. 1816 " (Cais.sin). 



P. fulicarkts. 



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

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

 scalloped. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. 



THE RED PHALAROPE. 



Tringa fuHmria, LiNN. S. N. I. 1766, 249 (Irased on Phalaropus rufescens, Briss. Orn. VI. 20 ; 



Edwards, pi. 142) 

 Phalaropus fiUicarius, BoNAP. Jour. Philad. Acad. IV. 1825, 232. — Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 



407. _ NuTT. Man. II. 1834, 236. — AuD. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 404, pi. 255 ; Syuop. 1839, 



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



Am. B. 1859, no. 521. — CouES, Key, 1872, 248 ; Check List, 1873, no. 411 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 



604 ; B. N. W. 1874, 471. — Einow. Nom. N. Am. B. 1882, no. 563. 

 PhaUrop-ns rufiis. Pall. Zoog. Kosso-As. II. 1831, 205, pi. 63. 

 Phalaropus platyrhynchus, Temm. Man. 1815, 459. 

 Phalaropus rti/cscens, Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 20. 

 Pfuilaropusgriseus, Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1816, 34. 



Hab. 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 as 

 Ohio, Illinois, .and Cape St. Lucas. 



Sr. Char. Adult, summer plumage : Entire lower parts deep purplish cinnamon; .sides of 

 head white. Back and scapulars light ochraceous or buft", striped with Idack ; wing-coverts deep 

 Iduish plumbeous, the greater widely tipped w-ith pure white ; remiges plumbeous-dusky. Lining 

 of the wing white, bordered exteriorly with dusky grayish. Male, with the crown and nape 



