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Family PHALAROPODID^ .— Tiik Phalaropes. 



Chab. Small birds of S<imlpiper-liko appearance, but with very full, compact pinmacro 

 like that of the Coots, Gulls, and Petrels; the tarsus creatly compressed, and the toe partly 

 webbed as well as fringed by a lateral, sometimes scalloped, margin. 



The Phalaropes are small iiortlieru birds combining the habits, 

 as well as to a certain extent the appearance, of the AVaders 

 and Swimmers. The two recognized genera may be distinguished 

 as follows: 



Crymophilus. Bill flattened, broad, the nostrils sub-basal; web between outer and 



middle toe extending to beyond second joint of the latter; lateral membrane of all 



the toes deeply scalloped. 

 Phalaropns, Bi'.l subulate, the nostrils strictly basal. 



Subgenus Phalaropus. Feet as in Crynioph Ina. 



Subgenus Steganopns. Vfeh between outer and middle toes not reaching to second 

 joint of latter; lateral membrane to all the toes narrow and scarcely scalloped. 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS Vieilt.ot. 



Crymophilus Vieill. Analyse, 1816, 62. Type, Tringa fulicaria LiNN. 



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

 expending to beyond second joint of the latter; lateral membrane of the toes broad and 

 deeply scalloped. 



Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.) 



BED PHALAROPR 



Tringa fulicaria LlNN. S. N. ed. 10, i, 1758, 148; ed. 12. i, 1766, 2J0. 

 Phalaropus fulicarius Sw. &RiCH. F. B.-A. 11,1831, •107.— Nutt. Man. ii, 1W4. 2V;.— Am. 

 Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 404, pi. 255; Synop. 18.S9, 230; B. Am. v, 1SI2. 231. pi. 33>».-Ca.<8. in 

 Baird's B. N. Am. 1858. 707.— Baibd. Cat. N. Am. B. lSot>, No. 521.— CouEs. Key. I.?72. 

 248; Check List. 1S74. No. 411; 2d ed. 1882. No. 601; B. N. W. 1874, 471.— Ridqw. Nom. 

 N. Am. B. 1882, No. 563.— B. B. & R. Water B. N. Am. i, 1881, 32)!. 

 Crumophilus fulicarius Stkjn. Auk, ii, ISiS, 183.— A. O. U. Cheek List. 18St?, No. 222.— 



RiDGW. Man. N. Am. B, 1887, 141. 

 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. 



