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Hab. Northern portions of the northern hemisphere; breeding very far north, and not 

 penetrating far within the tropics in winter; chiefly, but not strictly, maritime. In America, 

 recorded from the following southern localities : Bermudas ; DueQas, Guatemala ; Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec. 



Sp. Char. Adult: Above dark plumbeous, the back striped with ochraceous; wings 

 dusky, the greater coverts widely tipped with white; lower parts chiefly white, the nock 

 with more or less rufous. Female, with the sides of the neck and jugulum uniform cinna- 

 mon-rufous, the plumbeous above pure imd continuous. Male, with the rufous confined 

 chiefly to the sides of the neck, the jugulum being mixed white and grayish, tinged with 

 rufous ; plumbeous above duller and less continuous than in the female. Young, first plum- 

 age: Crown plumbeous-dusky, with or without streaks; back and scapulars black, dis- 

 tinctly streaked with buff or ochraceous; wings as in a 'ult, but middle coverts bordered 

 with buff or whitish. Forehead, supra-auricular stripe, lores, and lower parts white, the 

 jugulum and sides of breast sometimes suffused with dull brownish; aurioulars dusky. 

 Bowny young : Above, bright tawny, the rump with three parallel stripes of black, enclos- 

 ing two of lighter fulvous than the ground-color; crown covered by a triangular patch of 

 mottled darker brown, bounded irregularly with blackish; a black line over ears, not reach- 

 ing to the eye; throat and rest of head hght tawny-fulvous; rest of lower parts white, be- 

 coming grayish posteriorly. 



Total length, about 7.00 inches; wing, 4.00-4.45; culmen, .80-.90; tarsus, .75-85; middle toe, 

 .65-.75. 



This species, which is a rather rare migrant in IlHnois, is es- 

 sentially similar in its habits and distribution to the Red Phal- 

 arope. Mr. Nelson's record concerning it is as follows: 



"Rather rare migrant the first of May, and the last of Sep- 

 tember and first of October. Frequents slow streams or marshy 

 pools, where, swimming gracefullj^ from one patch of floating 

 weeds to another, it obtains its food. It is quite gentle and 

 unsuspicious, and I have approached in a boat within five yards 

 of one without its showing the least concern." 



Subgenus Steganopus Yieillot. 



Steganopus Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii,1819, 136. Type, 6'. tricolor ViErLL. 



Chab. Bill slender and subulate, with strictly basal nostrils, as in Phalaropus ; web be- 

 tween outer and middle toes not reaching to second joint, the lateral membrane of aU the 

 toes narrow and scarcely scalloped. 



Phalaropus tricolor (Vieill.) 



WILSON'S PHALAEOPE. 



Phalaropus lobatus WiLS. Am. Orn. ix, 1825, 72, pi. 73, flg. 3 (nee Tringa lobata Linn). 

 Phalaropus wilsoni Sabine, App. Frankl. Journ. 1823, fiOl.— Sw. & Rich. F. B.-A. ii, 1812, 

 405, pi. 60.— NuTT. Man. ii, 1834, 245.— AuD. Orn. Biog. iii. 1835, 400, pi. 254.— Cass. in 

 Baird's B.N. Am. 1858, 705.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 519. 

 Phalaropus (Holopodins) unlsoni Bonap. Synop. 1828, .342.— Nutt. Man. ii, 1834, 245. 

 Lobipes wilsoni AuD. Synop. 1839, 241; B. Am. v. 1842, 299, pi. 341. 



