406 RED PHALAROPE. 



Phalahopus fulicarius, Ch. Bonaparte, Synopsis of Birds of the United States, p. 3.41. 

 Red Phalarope, Phalahopus hypeeboreus, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. ix. p. 75. 



pi. 74, fig. 4. 

 Phai-aropus fulicarius, Flat-billed Phalarope, Swains, and Richards, Fauna- 



Bor. Amer. part ii. p. 407. 

 Red Phalarope, Nuttall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 236. 



Adult Male in Summer. Plate CCLV. Fig. 1. 

 Bill scarcely longer than the head, straight, slender, nearly cylindrical, 

 towards the end broader and flattened, the tip narrow. Upper mandible 

 with the dorsal line straight, excepting at the end, where it is a little 

 curved, the ridge convex, flattened at the broad part, the sides slightly 

 sloping, the edges rounded, and near the slightly curved obtuse tip in- 

 flected. Nasal groove hnear, extending to near the tip ; nostrils basal, 

 linear-elliptical. Lower mandible with the angle very long and narrow, 

 the sides convex, the tip narrowed, obtuse. 



Head small, with the fore part high and rounded ; eyes small. Neck 

 of moderate length. Body rather fuU. Feet rather short, slender ; tibia 

 bare a short way above the joint ; tarsus much compressed, narrowed be- 

 fore and behind, covered anteriorly with numerous scutella ; toes very slen- 

 der, first extremely smaU, free, with a slight membrane beneath, second 

 shorter than third, which is a little longer ; all scutellate above, the anterior 

 margined on both sides with lobed and pectinated membranes, which are 

 united at the base, so as to render the foot nearly half-webbed, the outer 

 web much longer than the inner. Claws very small, compressed, arched, 

 obtuse, that of the middle toe with an inner sharp edge. 



Plumage soft and slender, the feathers on the back and wings some- 

 what distinct. Wings long and pointed ; primary quills tapering, but 

 rounded, the first longest, the second a little shorter, the rest rapidly gra- 

 duated ; secondary quills rather short, obliquely truncate, the inner ta- 

 pering and elongated, so as nearly to equal the longest primaries when 

 the wing is closed. Tail of moderate length, much rounded, of twelve 

 feathers. 



Bill greenish-yeUow, black at the point. Iris brown. Feet pale 

 greyish-blue. Upper part of the head black ; loral space and chin black- 

 ish-grey ; sides of the head, and a band round the occiput, white. Sides 

 and fore part of the neck, breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts deep 

 orange-red. Fore part of the back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, black, 



