PHALAEOPUS FULCAEIUS, EED PHALAEOPE. 471 



common all aloug the Yukon Eiver, as well as at its mouth. " I 

 observed it," he continues, "running among stranded blocks of ice on 

 the muddy beach at I^Tulato, stopping and glancing around every few 

 steps ; the pure white of the breast more conspicuous by the black mud 

 over which it passed. Two eggs, in a small, round nest, lined with 

 grass, were found at Pastolik." 



A very large series of eggs of this Phalarope has been received at the 

 Smithsonian, collected by Messrs. Kennicott and Macfarlane, and 

 others, in the Anderson and Yukon Eiver regions. They show such a 

 range of variation in color that it is scarcely possible to describe them 

 intelligibly. The ground varies from dark greenish-olive or brownish- 

 olive, through various lighter drab-tints, nearly to a bufty-brown, and 

 in one instance to a light grayish-drab. The markings are usually very 

 bold and heavy, consisting of large spots and the still larger splashes 

 produced by their conflaence, mingled with dots and scratches in inter- 

 minable confusion. The markings are, in general, pretty evenly dis- 

 tributed, sometimes aggregated about the butt, and in rarer instances 

 forming a complete, definite circle. In a few instances all the markings 

 are mere dots. In general, the heaviness and size of the markings 

 bear some proportion to the intensity of the ground-color. The color 

 of the markings is dark bistre, chocolate, and sometimes still lighter 

 browns. The longest and narrowest egg measures 1.30 inches by only 

 0.75 ; a short and thick one only 1.10 by 0.82 ; average, about 1.20 by 

 0.80. The eggs are three or four, oftenest four, and are laid in June — 

 more frequently in the latter half of the month — in a depression of the 

 ground, variously lined with withered vegetation. 



PHALAEOPUS FULCAEIUS, (Linn.) Bp. 

 Bed Phalarope. 



Triwi/a/uZicariffl, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766,249 (based on Phalaropiis rufuscens, Briss., vi 



20, and Edw., pi. 142).— Fabr., Fn. Gran. 1780, No. 76.— Gm., S. N. i, 1783, GT6. 

 Phalaropus hjijerboreus, 9 , Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 775 (excl. syn. of supposed male).— 



Wits., Am. Orn. ix, 75, pi. 73, f. 4. 

 Plialaropus funcanus,Bv., Journ. Pblla. Acad, iv, 1825, 232; Syn. 1823, 341; List, 133fl 



54.- Sw. & EiCH., P. B. A. ii, 1831, 407.— Nurr., Man. ii, 1834, 236.— AuD., Orn. 



Biog. ili, 1835, 404, pi. 255; Syn. 1839, 239; B. Am. v, 1842, 291, pi. 339.-Gii!., 



B. L. I. 1844, 245.— Gray, Gen. of B. iii, 1849, 586.— Newb., P. R. E. Ecp. vi, 



1857, ^6 (off California coast).— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 707.— Coop. & Suck., N. H. 



Wasb. Ter. 1860, 236.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 201.— Codes, Pr. 



Pliila. Acad. 1861, 228 (Labrador).— Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864,86.— NE^yT., 



Ibis, 1865, 505 (Spitzbergen).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 1866, 295.— Codes, 



Pr. Ess. Inst, vi, 1868, 292 (migratory along the coast).— Dall & Bann., Trans. 



Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 291 .(Alaska).— Schl., JIus. Pays-Bas, 1865, Scolonoces, p. 



58.— Newt., P. Z. S. 1367, 165, pi. 15, f. 1 (egg).— Gray," Hand-list, iii, 1871, 55, No. 



10360.— Codes, Key, 1872, 248.— Ridgw., Ann. Lvc. N. Y. x, 1874, 385 (Illinois). 

 Phalarnpus rufus. Pall., Zoog. E.-A. ii, 1811, 205-, pi. 63.— Bechst., Nature. Bent, iv 



381.— Brkhm, V. D. 678, id. 35. f. 3. 

 Crymopldlus ?-m/«s, Vieill., Nonv. Diet. Nat. d'Hist. viii, 521. 

 Phalaropus platyrliynchus, Temm., Man. 1815, 459; ii, 712.— Brehji, V. D. 679 — Naum 



V. D. viii, 1836, 255, pi. 206.— Sad., Greeul. Birds, 536 : Suppl. Parry's 1st Voy! 



p. cei.— ErcH., App. Parry's 2d Voy. 335.— Erra, Atti Soc. Ital. 1860, ii, 58. 

 Phalaropus riifescens, Briss., vi, 20.— Keys. & Blas., Wirb. Enr.73.— Schl., Rev. Crit. 94. 

 Phalaropus griseiw, Leaoh, Cat. Mam. and B. Br. Mas. 34. 



Hab. — Essentially the same as that of L. hyperhoreus. 

 This species was not noticed by any of the Expeditions. 



I introduce this species, although it has not yet been found in the 

 Missouri region, as one which unquestionably occurs at times, and in 

 order to complete an account of the family. It is more particularly a 



