BIRDS — PHALAEOPODIDAE — PHALOROPUS FOLICARIUS. 



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Fhalaropus, B r i s s o n . 

 PHALAEOPUS FULICARIUS, (Linn.) Bon. 



Red Phalarope* 



Tringtt fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249. 



Phalaropusfulicanus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, 232.— Ib. Syn. 1828, 341.— Swainson, F. Bor. Amer. II, 1831, 407.— 



NuTT. Man. II, 236.— Add. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 404 ; pi. 255.— Ib. Syn. 239.— Ib. Birds 



Amer. V, 1842, 291 ; pi. 339. 

 Tringa glttcialis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 675. 

 Fhalaropus rufus, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-As. II, 1811, 205. 

 Fhalaropus platyrhynchus, Temm. Man. II, 712. 



Figures.— Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 142.— Vieill. Gal. Ois. II, pi. 270.— Wilson, Am. Orn. IX, pi. 73, fig. 4.— Aud. B. of 

 Am. pi. 255 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 339.— Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-As. II, pi. 63. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill strong, flattened, widened towards the end; wings long ; tail short ; legs short ; plumage thick and compact, 

 like the swimming birds, ^dult. Head above, space around the base of the bill, throat, and back, brownish black, feathers of 

 the last edged broadly with pale ochre yellow ; wings and tail ashy brown , paler on the wing coverts; greater wing coverts 

 widely tipped with white ; stripe on the cheek white. Entire under parts deep brownish red, inclining to purple on the abdomen, 

 and with a glaucous cast in very mature specimens ; under wing coverts and axillaries pure white ; bill greenish yellow ; feet 

 dark bluish brown. Yov/ng. Entire upper parts light cinereous ; head above and wings darker, and mixed with blackish brown; 

 head in front, and entire under parts white ; tips of greater wing coverts white. Total length, about 7^ inches ; wing, 5^ j 

 tail, 2| ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, | inch. 



Hab. — Entire temperate regions of North America ; Asia ; Europe. 



List of specimens. 



