BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 431 
STEGANOPUS TRICOLOR Vieillot. 
WILSON’'S PHALAROPE. 
Adult female in breeding plumage.—Forehead and crown pale 
bluish gray, the former with a blackish line along each side; occiput 
and nape white, passing into bluish gray or slate-gray on back and 
scapulars; stripe on side of head, chiefly behind eye, and continued 
down side of neck, black, passing on lower neck into rich dark chest- 
nut, this continued hackward, more or less brokenly, along each 
side of interscapular region, the outer portion of the scapular region 
also with a stripe of chestnut; short stripe from above lores to above 
eyes (not extending to bill), suborbital and rictal regions, chin and 
throat immaculate white; foreneck and chest soft buffy cinnamon, 
deeper laterally and posteriorly, and fading gradually into creamy buff 
on breast; rest of under parts immaculate white; wings brownish gray, 
the coverts and tertials margined with paler; rump brownish gray; 
upper tail-coverts white, the longer feathers marked more or less 
with mouse gray subterminally; tail mouse gray, the lateral feathers 
. irregularly barred on the inner web and narrowly tipped with white; 
bill black; iris dark brown; legs and feet black. 
Adult male in breeding plumage.—Smaller and much duller in color 
than the adult female, the beautiful pattern and richly contrasted 
colors of the latter but faintly indicated. 
Winter plumage.—Upper parts plain light gray, except upper tail- 
coverts which, together with superciliary stripe and entire under 
parts, are white, the chest and sides of breast faintly tinged with pale 
gray. 
Young.—Crown, pack, and scapulars dusky, the feathers con- 
spicuously margined with buff; wing-coverts grayish brown, mar- 
gined with pale buff or whitish; upper tail-coverts, superciliary stripe, 
and lower parts white, the neck tinged with buff. 
Downy young.—General color bright cinnamon-buff or tawny- 
buff, paler beneath, the abdomen nearly white; occiput and nape 
with a distinct median streak of black, on the former branching 
laterally into two narrower irregular lines; lower back and rump with 
three broad black stripes; flanks with a black spot and caudal region 
crossed by a broad subterminal bar of black. 
Adult male.—Wing, 116-125 (121.1); tail, 48-54 (51.2); exposed 
culmen, 28-31 (30.5); tarsus, 28.5-33 (30.1); middle toe, 22-25 (24).¢ 
@ Ten specimens. 
