PHALAEOPUS. 



Phalaropus frenatus, Vieillot, Gal. Ois. ii. p. 178 (1826). 



Lobipes frenatus [Vieill.), Cuvier, Rhgne An. i. p. 532 (1829). 



Phalaropus stenodactylus^ Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 523. 



Lobipes wilsoni (Sabine), Audubon, Syn. Birds N. Amer. p. 2-11 (1839). 



Holopodius wilsoni [Sabine), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 420 (1856). 



Steganopus wilsoni {Sabine), Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 158. 



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Plates. — Temm. PI. Col. no. 370 ; Jardine & Selby, 111. Orn. i. pi. 16 ; Swainson & Rich. Literature. 



Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. pi. 69 ; Audubon, Birds Am. v. pi. 341. 

 Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 335. 

 Eggs, described by Brewer on page 339 of the above-mentioned volume. 



"Wilson's Phalarope may always be recognized by its long slender dill, more than an 

 inch long \ the long tarsus, about the same length as the bill, is also diagnostic. In 

 breeding-plumage it resembles most the Red-necked Phalarope, but is easily distinguished 

 by the white stripe down the back of the neck and the black stripes down the sides of 

 the neck. 



It is entirely confined to the American continent, breeding near the lakes of the 

 interior as far north as Lake Winnipeg, and as far south as the Great Salt Lake in the 

 west, and Lake Michigan in the east. It is occasionally seen on the Atlantic coast on 

 migration, and it winters in various parts of the Neotropical Region, Mexico, Guatemala, 

 Chih (Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 118), Patagonia (Durnford, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 42), &c. 



Specific 

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Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Sternum of Phalaropus fulicarius. 



