424 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linneus). 
NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 
Adult female in summer—Upper parts dull dark slate-gray or 
blackish slate, the back and scapulars striped with buff or ochraceous; 
greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white; chin, throat, and 
under: parts of body immaculate white; sides of neck, foreneck, and 
chest plain cinnamon-rufous; bill black; iris dark brown; legs and 
feet bluish gray, the toes with joints darker gray or dusky. 
Adult male in summer.—Similar to the female, but slightly smaller 
and decidedly duller in coloration, the dusky grayish of upper parts 
duller and less uniform, the cinnamon-rufous of neck almost confined 
to sides of neck, the chest mixed white and grayish, more or less 
tinged with cinnamon-rufous. 
Winter plumage (sexes alike).—Forehead, superciliary stripe, sides 
of head and neck, and under parts, white, the sides of chest washed 
or clouded with pale gray; pileum grayish, the feathers with dusky 
shaft-streaks and whitish margins; a blackish spot in front of eye; 
suborbital and auricular regions mixed ee and grayish white; 
upper parts chiefly gray. 
Young.—Pileum dusky, with or wittiont streaks; back and scapu- 
lars blackish, distinctly margined with buff or ochraceous; middle 
wing-coverts margined with buff or whitish; auriculars dusky; 
forehead, lores, supra-auricular stripe, and under parts white, the 
chest and sides of breast sometimes suffused with dull brownish. 
Downy young.—General color of upper parts tawny or brownish 
‘tawny (sayal brown); crown and occiput mostly black (sometimes 
wholly so), or heavily clouded or marbled with black; a black post- 
auricular spot or patch; rump with a broad median stripe of black, 
edged along each side by a narrow stripe of white or pale buffy, the 
remaining upper parts more or less spotted or marbled with blackish; 
sides of head (except as described), chin, throat, and foreneck pale 
cinnamon or buff, the remaining under parts dull white, shaded 
posteriorly with pale grayish brown. 
Adult male—Wing, 102-109 (105.1); tail, 46-50 (48.3); culmen, 
21-23 (22); tarsus, 18-20 (19.2); middle toe, 18-20.5 (19.5).¢ 
a Eleven specimens. 
