RED PHALAROPE. 467- 



Tringa Tiyperlorea, Linn-JEUS, Syst. Nat,, i, 1766, 249. 

 Fhalarojpus Tii/perloreus, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 775. 

 Lolipes hyperlorexis, Cdvibr, Reg. An,, i, 1829, 532. 



Adalt, dark opaqne-ast or grayish- black, the back variegated with tawny ^ npper tail- 

 coverts and under parts mostly white ; side of the head and neck with a broad stripe of 

 rich chestnut, generally meeticg on the jagnlum ; breast otherwise with ashy-gray j 

 young lacking the chestnut. Length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4 J ; tail, 2 ; bill, tarsus, and 

 middle toe each, under 1, black. 



Habitat, Northern Hemisphere, penetrating to very high latitudes to breed, migratory 

 sometimes into the tropics in winter. Generally distributed, but more particularly 

 maritime. 



Rare spring and fall migrant. Dr Kirtland, quoted on page 217, notes 

 tlie capture of a pair in winter plumage on Lake Erie. Mr. Winslow" 

 and others have since taken it on the lake shore. Dr. Jasper took a pair 

 in winter plumage on the Scioto River, in the immediate vicinity of 

 this city, a few years since, one of which is now in my collection, the other 

 in that of Mr. Oliver Davie. 



The eggs are described as having^a ground-color pi various shades of 

 brown or olive, spotted with darker-brown. They measure about 1.20 

 by .80. 



Genus PHALAEOPUS. Brisson. 



Membranes scalloped, bill comparatively stout, flattened, with lancet shaped tip. 



PhALABOPTJS FULICAEItrS (L.) Bp. 



X^ed Flialnrope- 



FlialaropusfuUcariua, Whsaton, Ohio Agrio. Eep, for 1860, 1861, 380 (probable) ; addenda, 

 480 ; Eeprint, 10.— CouES, Birds of N. W., 1874, 472.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 

 1877, 14; Revised List, Jouin. Cin. Soc, Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188; Eeprint, 22. 



Lolipes (eitoi) fuUcariuB, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep, for 1874, 1875, 

 572 ; Eeprint, 12. 



TringafuUearia, LiNN,a;u8, Syst. Nat,, i, 1777, 249. 



Phalaropua fuUcarius, Bonapakte, Journ. Philad. Acad., iv, 1825, 232. 



Adult with the tinder parts purplish-chestnut of variable intensity, white in the 

 young ; above variegated with blackish and tawny. Length, 7-3 inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 

 2 J ; bill, 1, yellowish, black-tipped; tarsus, f, greenish. 



Habitat, essentially the same as that of X. hyperloreus. 



Rare migrant. The Red Phalarope was named as an Ohio bird by my- 

 self in 1861, on the authority of Mr. R. K. Winslow, of Cleveland, who- 

 informed me that two or three specimens had been taken on Lake Erie. 

 Although Mr. Langdon names it in his Catalogue, he omits it from his- 

 later List, doubtless for want of positive identification. It is named by 

 Mr. Ridgway as a bird of Illinois, and Mr. Nelson gives it as an occasional 



