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PHALAEOPUS. 



Faroes. In winter it frequents the coasts of Europe, but is very rare in the basin of the 

 Mediterranean, and has not occurred in North-east Africa, Palestine, or Asia Minor. It 

 occurs during passage on most of the great internal lines of migration, and winters in 

 Persia and occasionally in North India. It passes the coasts of Japan on migration, and 

 winters in China and the islands of the Malay Archipelago as far south as New Guinea. 

 In the western hemisphere it winters in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. 

 It also occasionally visits the Bermudas (Reid, Zoologist, 1877, p. 475). 



Diagnosis. 



PHALAROPUS WILSONI. 



iriLSON'S PILILJROPE. 

 Phalaropus rostro tenui, longo (plus quam 25 millitn.). 



Variations. No local races of this species are knowi 



Synonymy. Triuga glacialis, Gmelin, Sysi. Nat. i. p. 675 (1788). 



Steganopus tricolor, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii. p. 136 (1819). 

 Phalaropus wilsoni, Sabine, Franklin's Narr. Journ. Polar Sea, p. 691 (ls:J3). 

 Lobipes incanus, Jardine cV Selby, III. Orn. i. pi. 16 (1825). 

 Phalaropus fimbriatus, Temmirick, PL Col. no. 370 (1825). 



