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Martin, Zool. Gart., 1871, 157.—Fauion, Ois. Belg., 1875, 189.—GArxn, 
Vogelw. Helgoland, 1891, 528. 
Phalaropus platyrhinchus Temmincx, Man. d’Orn., ii, 1820, 712; iv, 1840, 446.— 
Fox, Newc. Misc., 1827, 118. 
Phalarophus platyrhynchus Reinuaror, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 441 (Greenland). 
Phalaropus griseus Luacu, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 34 (Yorkshire, 
England). 
Ph{alaropus| rufescens Knysertina aul Buastus, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xxii, 
212 (based on Le Phalarope roussatre Brisson, Orn., vi, 1760, 20). 
Phalaropus Tufescens ScutecrL, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. xciv; Vos. Nederl., 1854, 
pl. 239. *—-MippEnporrr, Reis. Sibir., Zodl., 1851, 216 (Taimyr River, "pread- 
ing; Boganida River).—Mt.ier, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 229 (Provence).— 
Norpmann, Journ. fiir Orn., 1864, 374 (Finland). Droste, Journ. fiir Orn., 
1868, 406 (e. Friesland).—Taczanowsx1, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i, 1876, 
251; ii, 1877, 157 (Poland); Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., 1877, 55.—Bocpanow, 
Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 81. 
Phalaropus rufesceus ZANDER, Archiv Mecklenb., xv, 1861, 119. 
Phalaropus platyrostris NorpMaNnn, in Démidoff, Voy. Russ. Mérid., iii, 1840, 250. 
Phalaropus cinereus Frrtscx, Vog. Eur., 1871, pl. 3g, fig. 3. 
Lobupes wilsonii? (not Phalaropus wilsonit Sabine) Buaxiston and Pryrsr, Trans. 
Asiat. Soc. Japan, viii, 1880, 196; x, 1882, 113 (Japan). 
Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 
Lobipes Cuvier, Raghe Anim., i, 1817 (1816), 495. (Type, by original designa- 
tion, Tringa hyperborea Linnzeus=T. lobata Linnzus.) 
Small Phalaropes (wing 102-113 mm.) with slender, acuminate- 
subulate bill, nostrils close to loral feathering, lateral amerghrang of 
toes broad and distinctly scalloped, and web between outer and 
middle toes extending to or beyond second articulation of the latter. 
Bill slender and pointed (acuminate-subulate), narrower than deep 
subterminally, the exposed culmen a little longer than tarsus; lat- 
eral grooves of maxilla narrow, extending halfway (approximately) 
to tip; nostril basal (close to loral feathering), small, longitudinally 
linear. Wing long and pointed, the longest primary (outermost, 
which is only slightly longer than the next) extending decidedly 
beyond tip of longest tertials. Tail nearly half as.long as wing 
moderately graduated. Tarsus as long as middle toe without claw 
or slightly longer, much compressed, the acrotarsium covered by a 
continuous single series of transverse scutella; outer toe nearly 
long as middle toe, the inner toe slightly shorter than outer toe; 
lateral membrane of anterior toes broad, distinctly (but moderately) 
scalloped, the web between outer and middle toes extending to or 
beyond second articulation of middle toe. 
Coloration.—Under parts white, upper parts slaty or dusky; 
adults in summer with sides of neck and whole chest cinnamon- 
rufous, this more restricted and less distinct in male. 
- Range. —Circumpolar regions, south in winter to Guatemala, 
Bermudas, Celebes, Aru Islands, Hawaiian Islands, etc. (Monotypic.) 
