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  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  Lobipes 
  lobatus 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

  

  Northern 
  Phalarope 
  

  

  Plate 
  20 
  

  

  Tringa 
  lobata 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:148,824 
  

  

  Lobipes 
  hyperboreus 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  269, 
  fig. 
  203, 
  204 
  

  

  Ph 
  a 
  1 
  ar 
  o 
  p 
  us 
  lo 
  b 
  a 
  tu 
  s 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  232 
  

  

  lobd'tus, 
  Lat., 
  lobed 
  

  

  Description. 
  Bill 
  short, 
  slender, 
  straight, 
  compressed 
  and 
  pointed 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip; 
  legs 
  short; 
  tibia 
  only 
  slightly 
  denuded; 
  toes 
  with 
  scalloped 
  mem- 
  

   hrane. 
  Female 
  in 
  summer: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  in 
  general 
  plumbeous, 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  

   scapulars 
  with 
  four 
  stripes 
  of 
  ocherous, 
  and 
  the 
  feathers 
  of 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  

   wing 
  coverts 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  white; 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  neck 
  bright 
  reddish 
  

   chestnut; 
  throat 
  and 
  eyelids 
  white 
  ; 
  a 
  white 
  band 
  in 
  the 
  wing 
  formed 
  by 
  the 
  

   white 
  ends 
  of 
  the 
  greater 
  coverts; 
  primaries 
  blackish, 
  the 
  shafts 
  white; 
  

   tail 
  dusky 
  grayish, 
  the 
  outer 
  feathers 
  lighter 
  and 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  

   whitish; 
  upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  white 
  and 
  dusky; 
  under 
  parts 
  white, 
  mixed 
  with 
  

   bluish 
  gray 
  on 
  the 
  breast 
  and 
  sides; 
  bill 
  and 
  feet 
  black. 
  Male: 
  Showing 
  

   ■similar 
  pattern 
  and 
  colors, 
  but 
  much 
  duller 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  parts 
  mixed 
  

   with 
  grayish 
  brown; 
  smaller 
  than 
  female. 
  Winter 
  plumage: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  

   light 
  grayish, 
  the 
  buffy 
  stripes 
  of 
  summer 
  replaced 
  with 
  whitish 
  ones; 
  front 
  

   and 
  sides 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  neck, 
  and 
  under 
  parts 
  mostly 
  white; 
  a 
  dusky 
  patch 
  

   back 
  of 
  the 
  eye, 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  neck 
  washed 
  with 
  buffy 
  where 
  the 
  red 
  

   appears 
  in 
  summer. 
  

  

  Young: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  blackish, 
  edged 
  with 
  buffv, 
  grayish 
  on 
  the 
  back, 
  

   scapulars 
  and 
  wing 
  coverts 
  ; 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  slaty 
  ; 
  below 
  white 
  ; 
  sides 
  

   of 
  neck 
  and 
  breast 
  tinged 
  with 
  light 
  brownish 
  ; 
  feet 
  lighter. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-7.5 
  inches; 
  extent 
  13.5; 
  wing 
  4.15-4.5; 
  tail 
  2; 
  tarsus 
  .78-.82; 
  

   middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  .85 
  ; 
  bill 
  .8-. 
  88. 
  Smaller 
  dimensions 
  are 
  of 
  males. 
  

  

  The 
  Northern, 
  or 
  Red-necked 
  phalarope, 
  is 
  holarctic 
  in 
  distribution, 
  

  

  breeding 
  in 
  high 
  latitudes 
  and 
  migrating 
  southward 
  in 
  winter 
  to 
  temperate 
  

  

  and 
  tropical 
  regions. 
  It 
  is 
  our 
  commonest 
  phalarope, 
  occurring 
  with 
  

  

  considerable 
  regularity 
  both 
  on 
  the 
  ocean 
  and 
  inland 
  waters. 
  New 
  York 
  

  

  specimens 
  are 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  L 
  Aug. 
  24, 
  1874; 
  Aug. 
  1875. 
  Lawrence, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  10: 
  235 
  

  

  Troy, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  av. 
  F. 
  S. 
  Webster 
  

  

  Keuka 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  May 
  1874. 
  Auburn 
  List, 
  p. 
  31 
  

  

  Owasco 
  Lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  (Several). 
  June 
  1877. 
  Auburn 
  List, 
  p. 
  31 
  

  

  Black 
  river, 
  Lewis 
  cc, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Sept. 
  6, 
  1877. 
  Merriam, 
  N. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Bui. 
  3: 
  54 
  

  

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  N. 
  Y. 
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