NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 469 



newly-fledged .young on tbe Mouse Eiver, in Dakota, near Turtle 

 Mountain. These young were specially interesting to me, as showing 

 a plumage with which I had up to that time been unacquainted. It is 

 described above. In all such breeding localities, where the birds feel 

 at home, and have none of the restlessness they show wlien migrating, 

 their habits may be studied to the best advantage. I had excellent 

 opportunity of seeing how gentle and conliding the birds become when 

 not molested, and how surprisingly graceful they are, either pacing the 

 brink of their favorite pool, or swimming buoyantly upon its surface. 

 1 had no heart to destroy any of the beautiful creatures, much as 1 

 desired some for my cabinet, alter a scene I had witnessed when I had 

 secured some Avocets. Three PhalaroiJes came in great coucern and 

 alighted on the water where a dead Avocet was floating, swimming 

 back and forth and almost caressiug it with their bill. The Avocet's 

 mate himself, who was not long in reaching the spot, showed no more 

 agitation than his little friends and neighbors, the Phalaropes, did ; and 

 though it was only birds "of a low order of beings" who thus exhibited 

 sympathy and grief, who could look on such a scene unmoved ? 



The eggs of "Wilson's Phalarope are from 1.20 to 1.35 inches long, by 

 about 0.1)0 broad, thus being of an elongate as well as pyriform shape. 

 The ground ranges from a clay color to a brownish-drab; it is very 

 heavily overlaid with the markings, sometimes to such extent that the 

 ground struggles to appear amid the alniost contincus overlying color, 

 and an egg like a Ptarmigan's results. Ordinarily the markings con- 

 sist of numerous large, heavy splashes and sizable spots of indetermi- 

 nate contour-, mixed with numberless specks and fine scratches ; occa-' 

 sional eggs are much more lightly and sparsely speckled in finer 2>at- 

 tern. The color of the markings is a varying shade of dark bistre- 

 brown, sometimes chocolate. Shell-markings are not ordinarily notice- 

 able. 



LOBIPES HYPEEBOEEUS, (Linn.) Cuv. 



Ifortlieni Phalarope. 



Irmga hyperborea. LnsN., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 249 (based on Fu. Suec. 179: Edw., 143; 

 Will., i70; Ray, V.i'i; Flialaropus cinereus, Briss., vi, 15). — Bnt'KX., Oru. Bor. 

 1764, 17-'.— Fabr., Fii. Gi-oen. 1760, No. 75.— G.M., Syst. Nat., i, 17cS, 675. 



Phalaropiis lujpa-horeus, $ , Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 775 (excl. svu. of suppo.sed female = 

 F. fiiUcariiis); Plancli. Eolnm. 766.— Tejim., Man. 1815, 457; ii, 1S20, 709.— 

 Sab., Fraukl. Journ. 690.— Bp., Syn. 1^28, 34-2.- Nutt., Man. ii, l,'-34. 239.— 

 AuD., Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 116; v, 1839, 595 ; pi. 215.— Newb., P. R. R. Rep. vi, 

 lt-57, 98 (Des Chutes River, in summer).— Be, B. N. A. 1858, 706.— ScL. & 

 Salv., Ibis, ii, 1860, 277 (Guatemala).— S^■^^x., Ibis, 1863, 415 (Formosa).— 

 Co<;>p. & Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 236.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, 

 No. 200.— Yerr., Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. 1802, 158 (Maine, possibly breeding). — 

 (?)Boai;dm., Pr. Bost. Soe. ix, 1862, l'28(Bayof Fundy).— Lawr., Ann. Lyc.N. Y. 

 \iii, 1866, 295 (New York).- Allex. Pr. Ess. Inst. iv,'l8(i4, 86 (Massachusetts). — 

 McIi.wj:., Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1866, 9-.i (Canada West).- Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolo- 

 jiaces, 58.— TuENB., B. E. Pa. 1869, 29 (May and September).— Stev., U. 8. Geo]. 

 Snrv. Ter. 1870, 466 (Wyoming). 



Phalaropuf {Lobipea) hyperhoreus, Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 55, No. 10861. 



Lobipes hiiperboreus, Cvx., R(5gne Auiuj. i, 1829, 532. — Steph., Gen. Zool. xii, 169, pi. 21. — 

 Elem., Br. An. 100.— Bkehm, Y. D. 676, pi. 35, f. 4.— .Jex., Man. Br. Yert. 214.— 

 Eyi., L'at. Br. B. 43.— Macgil., Man. N. H. Oru. ii, 84.— Bp., List 1838. ,54.— 

 AuC, 8yu. 1839, 24(.) ; B. Am. v, 1842, 295, pi. 340.— GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 248.— 

 CorES, Pr. Ess. Inst, vi, 1868, 292 (migratory along tlie coast, perhaps breed- 

 ing).— D all & Baxx., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 290 (Alaslsa).- CouES, Key, 

 1872, 248, flg. 161 (foot).— RiDGW., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 1874, 385 (Illinois). 



0)TilHga lobata, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 249 (based on Fn. Suec. No. 179; Tringa 

 grisea, Briss., ii, 206, pi. 208; Phil. Trans, vol. 1, 255, pi. 6: Edw., pi. 308; 

 Pkalaropiis, Briss., \-i, p. 12).— Brixx., Orn. Bor. 1764, 51.— MtJLLER, No. 195. — 

 Fabr., Fn. Groen. 1780, No. 75.— Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 17s8, 674. 



