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  migrations, 
  probably 
  surpassing 
  all 
  other 
  orders 
  in 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  

   migratory 
  instinct, 
  several 
  of 
  our 
  species 
  breeding 
  on 
  the 
  arctic 
  islands 
  

   and 
  wintering 
  on 
  the 
  plains 
  of 
  Patagonia. 
  Their 
  voices 
  are 
  mellow, 
  piping, 
  

   or 
  whistling, 
  and 
  can 
  be 
  heard 
  from 
  a 
  long 
  distance. 
  Their 
  plumage 
  is 
  

   mottled 
  or 
  varied. 
  They 
  are 
  prized 
  as 
  game 
  birds, 
  the 
  Woodcock, 
  Snipe, 
  

   Golden 
  plover 
  and 
  Upland 
  plover 
  being 
  in 
  high 
  repute 
  with 
  sportsmen 
  

   and 
  epicures. 
  

  

  Family 
  F'HA.LA.FtOPID 
  AE 
  

  

  Phalaropes 
  

  

  Small 
  birds 
  with 
  dense, 
  ducklike 
  plumage, 
  and 
  lobate 
  feet; 
  tarsus 
  com- 
  

   pressed 
  and 
  serrulate 
  behind; 
  the 
  lobes 
  or 
  toe 
  margins 
  scalloped 
  in 
  at 
  the 
  

   joints; 
  hallux 
  slightly 
  lobed; 
  bill 
  as 
  long, 
  or 
  longer, 
  than 
  head, 
  grooved 
  for 
  

   three 
  fourths 
  or 
  more 
  of 
  its 
  length, 
  rather 
  hardened 
  and 
  pointed 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  

  

  Phalaropes 
  are 
  good 
  swimmers 
  and 
  are 
  frequently 
  seen 
  far 
  out 
  at 
  sea 
  

   resting 
  on 
  the 
  water 
  like 
  flocks 
  of 
  diminutive 
  ducks. 
  They 
  often 
  swim 
  

   while 
  feeding, 
  whirling 
  about 
  in 
  the 
  shallow 
  water 
  to 
  stir 
  up 
  the 
  minute 
  

   insects 
  from 
  the 
  bottom, 
  and 
  seizing 
  them 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  swept 
  about 
  in 
  the 
  

   little 
  whirlpool 
  thus 
  created 
  [Chapman]. 
  The 
  female 
  Phalarope 
  is 
  larger 
  

   and 
  more 
  brightly 
  colored 
  than 
  the 
  male. 
  She 
  does 
  the 
  courting 
  and 
  

   turns 
  over 
  the 
  duties 
  of 
  incubation 
  to 
  the 
  male. 
  This 
  reversal 
  of 
  Nature's 
  

   usual 
  order 
  in 
  reproductive 
  habits 
  is 
  not 
  confined 
  to 
  this 
  family, 
  but 
  is 
  

   also 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  Painted 
  snipe 
  (Rostratula) 
  of 
  the 
  Oriental, 
  Ethi- 
  

   opian 
  and 
  neotropical 
  regions, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  World 
  Hemipodes 
  

   (Turnicidae). 
  

  

  Phalaropus 
  fulicarius 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Red 
  Phalarope 
  

  

  Plate 
  28 
  

  

  Tringa 
  fulicaria 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:148 
  

   Phalaropus 
  fulicarius 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  268, 
  fig. 
  232 
  

   Cymophilus 
  fulicarius 
  A. 
  0. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  222 
  

  

  phala'ropiis, 
  Gr. 
  <^aAapts, 
  coot; 
  ttous, 
  foot; 
  jidicd'rius, 
  Lat. 
  cootlike; 
  julica, 
  Lat., 
  a 
  coot 
  

  

  Description. 
  Bill 
  depressed, 
  broad 
  and 
  somewhat 
  spatulate; 
  feet 
  

   semipalmate 
  and 
  broadly 
  scallop-lobed. 
  Fetnale 
  in 
  sunvmer: 
  Under 
  parts 
  

  

  