430 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Phalaropus fulicarius (not Tringa fulicaria Linneus) Frrrscu, Vég. Eur., 1871, 
pl. 39, fig. 5—Humz, Ibis, 1872, 469 (Sind, India); Stray Feath., i, 1873, 
144, 245 (between Gwadar and Muscat); vii, 1878, 487 (Calcutta). 
Phalaropus asiaticus Hume, Stray Feath., i, 1873, 246 (between Gwadar and 
Muscat). 
Lobipes tropicus Hume, i, 1873, 247 (Karachi, India; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Steganopus tricolor (not of Vieillot) Brooxs and Cons, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 467 
(Birch Lake, Alberta; see Auk, xxix, 1912, 400). 
Genus STEGANOPUS Vieillot. 
Steganopus% Virw1io0t, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxiv, 1818, 124 (no type indi- 
cated, but diagnosis given); xxxii, 1819, 136. (Type, S. tricolor Vieillot.) 
Holopodius Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 342. (Type, by 
original designation, Phalaropus wilsonti Sabine=Steganopus tricolor Vieillot.) 
(?) Amblyrhynchus (not of Leach, 1814) Nurraty, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 
Water Birds, 1834, 247. (Type, by original designation, Tringa glacialis 
Gmelin =Steganopus tricolor Vieillot ? ) 
Rather large Phalaropes (wing 116-135 mm.) with slender, slightly 
depressed. bill, basal nostrils, long tarsus (distinctly longer than 
middle toe with claw), narrowly margined and slightly webbed toes, 
and double-emarginate tail. 
Bill about as long as tarsus, slender, slightly depressed, with lateral 
outlines nearly parallel; nostril basal (close to loral antia), narrow, 
the lateral groove of maxilla indistinct. Wing long and pointed, the 
longest primary (outermost) extending much beyond tips of longest 
tertials. Tail between one-third and one-half as long as wing, 
double-emarginate. Tarsus decidedly longer than middle toe with 
claw, much compressed, the acrotarsium covered with a continuous ~ 
series of narrow transverse scutella, the planta tarsi also transversely 
scutellate; unfeathered portion of tibia much longer than first 
phalanx of middle toe, transversely scutellate before and behind; 
inner toe decidedly shorter than middle toe, the outer toe not de- 
cidedly shorter than inner; lateral membrane of anterior toes narrow, 
shallowly or indistinctly scalloped, the web between outer and 
middle toes not extending to second-articulation of the latter. 
Coloration.—Under parts white; adult female in summer with 
forehead and crown pale bluish gray, a black stripe on side of head 
passing into rich chestnut on lower neck; adult male similar but 
coloration much duller. 
Range.—Temperate North America, chiefly west of Mississippi 
River, south in winter to Chile, Argentina, and Falkland Islands. 
(Monotypic.) 
4 Zreyavorus, planipes. (Vieillot.) 
5 Tringa glacialis Gmelin (based on Plain Phalarope Pennant, Arctic Zool.,ii, 495) is not 
identifiable with certainty. It has usually been considered to be the young of Phala- 
ropus fulicarius, but I agree with Doctor Coues (Birds of the Northwest, 467, footnote) 
in considering it more likely the young of Steganopus tricolor. 
