394 CHAEADEIID^. 



sometimes in a tussock in a bog ^^. The eggs are four in number, and resemble 

 those of G. coelestis i*, being pyriform in shape, of a greyish-olive or olive-brown colour, 

 with spots or blotches of reddish-brown, generally collected round the larger end ^^ i4, 



Subfam. PHALAROPOBINM 



The members of this subfamily may be described as small Plover-like birds, with a 

 foot resembling that of a Grebe, the toes being lobed and the hinder aspect of the 

 tarsus serrated {cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 693). 



Three genera are recognized, each with a single species. All are inhabitants of the 

 Arctic and Subarctic Regions of either the Old or the New AVorld, wandering far to 

 the southward in winter. Two of the Phalaropes are met with within our limits, and 

 it should be noted that Herrera mentions P. wilsoni and P. tricolor as occurring in 

 the Valley of Mexico. These names are synonymous, but it is possible that one of 

 them may have been intended to refer to Crymophilus fulicarius. 



PHALAKOPUS. 

 Phalaropus, Briss. Om. vi. p. 12 (1760); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxit. p. 698 (1896). 



The single species of this genus is distinguished by a somewhat elongated tarsus, 

 which exceeds the dimensions of the middle toe and claw, but is not equal to the 

 culmen in length. The female is larger and more handsomely coloured than 

 the male. 



1. Phalaropus hyperboreus. 



The Coot-footed Tringa, Edwards^ Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 46. pL 46 ^. 



Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 ^. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, Tunst. Orn. Brit. p. 3 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 99 *, 277 ' ; Salv. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 605 ^ j Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 340 ' ; Sharpe, Cat, Birds 

 Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 698 " ; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 70 '. 



LoUpes hyperboreus, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 46 " j Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232 ". 



Lobipes lobattis, Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 330 ". 



Phalaropus lobatus, A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 82 " ; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore- 

 Birds, p. 27 ". 



Ptil. hiem. Snpra schistaceo-cinerens, plumis singulis albo fimbriatis ; aUs nigris, tectricibus majoribus et 

 primariorum tectricibus late albo terminatis ; secundariis ad basin albis, intimis dorso concoloribus ; 

 rectricibus nigricantibus, albo marginatis, extimis intns basin versus albis ; pUeo albo, nucha et collo 

 postico dorso concoloribus ; regione oculari et auricnlari nigris ; facie lateraU et corpora subtns toto pure 

 albis, corporis lateribus late sagittatim cinereo striatis ; subalaribus et axillaribus albis : rostro nigro • 

 pedibus plnmbescentibus ; iride saturate bmnnea. Long, tota circa 70, alse 4-4, caudae 1-9, culm. 0-95 

 tarsi 0-75. (Descr. feminse adultee ex San Francisco, California. Mus. nostr.) 



cJ ad. feminae similis, sed minor, et coloribus sordidioribus distinguendus. 



Ptil. cEitiv. Supra saturate scbistaceus, interscapulii lateralibus plumis et scapularibus ockraceo dimidiatim 

 notatis ; gula et corpora subtus pure albis, lateribns cineraceis ; gutture imo et pnepectore cum colli 



