390 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson. 



102. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.). 

 Red Phalarope. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.), A. 0. U. Check List, 1895, p. 82. 

 Distr.. Arctic regions, south in winter, chiefly along the coast, 

 to the Middle states in eastern North America and Lower California 

 in the West. 



Adult male in summer: General under parts and sides of the neck, 

 purplish brown; upper tail coverts, purplish brown, slightly darker 

 than the under parts; crown of the head and 

 base of the bill, smoky black; sides of the head, 

 white, extending to the nape; rump, white; 

 back, black; feathers, edged with tawny brown; 

 primaries, dusky, the shafts being white, and 

 the base of the feathers, white; some of the 

 n, , , ■■ ■ secondaries, white; bill, yellowish brown, dark 



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on the tip; feet, dull yellow. 



Adult in winter: Head and under parts, white; a small patch 

 around the eye and a nuchal crest, dusky; the under parts of the body 

 are tinged with ashy gray on the sides; upper parts, grayish ash color; 

 wings, showing a distinct white bar; bill, dusky; feet, brownish. 



Length, 7.70; wing, 5.10; tail, 2.50 bill, .94; tarsus, .80. 



The Red Phalarope is a comparatively rare bird in Illinois and 

 Wisconsin. Small flocks occasionally occur on Lake Michigan and 

 some of the inland waters during the migrations. 



Ridgway includes it as a rare migrant. Nelson in his Birds of 

 Northeastern Illinois (1876, p. 125) says: "Exceedingly rare, occurs 

 only during the migrations." Kumlien and Hollister (Birds of Wis- 

 consin, 1903, p. 41) state that small flocks may be met on Lake 

 Michigan and Lake Superior in autumn and occasionally straggling 

 individuals wander to the inland lakes. They also give several re- 

 cords of specimens killed in the state. 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



103. Lobipes lobatus (Linn.). 



Northern Phalarope. 

 Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 82. 

 Distr.: North portion of northern hemisphere, breeding in Arctic 

 latitudes; south in winter to the tropics. 



