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terminated with white, constituting the band across the wings : the 

 quill-feathers are dusky ; the secondaries are broadly white inside with 

 margins of the same : the primaries are blackish at the point, shafted 

 and obliquely centered with white ; the four outer ones are blackish on 

 their outer margins where the others are white. The tail is two and a 

 half inches in length, nearly square at tip, being much less rounded 

 than in the Semipalmated species, white beneath for half its length, and 

 blackish at tip ; the outer tail-feather is wholly white, the next is also 

 white, and with a single spot of black, which on the third extends much 

 more, and still- more on the fourth, and fifth, till the last is merely ter- 

 minated with white, the middle ones being wholly dusky from the white 

 of the base. The feet are greenish yellow tinged with orange, and the 

 nails black. 



Those authors who describe the autumnal plumage as much darker, 

 are still laboring under the erroneous opinion which they had rejected, 

 of this being the same with the Q. semipalmatus. On the contrary, it 

 is if anything still paler at that season, and considerably resembles that 

 of the young birds, which are distinguished by the absence of the neck 

 ring and sincipital crescent, and the bill being entirely blackish. 



As will appear by referring to Wilson's two articles on the Ring 

 Plovers, this species is commonly met with during the whole summer 

 along the sandy coasts of the United States, on the approach of winter 

 retiring south : it lays in the month of July on the sandy beach, three 

 or four eggs, very large for the bird, of an obscure clay color, all sprin- 

 kled with numerous reddish spots. It runs rapidly, holding the wings 

 half expanded ; and utters a very soft and mellow cry. 



PHALAROPUS HTPERBOREUS. 



HYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 



[Plate XXV. Fig. 2.] 



Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. i., p. 249, Sp. 9. Gmel. Sysf. i., p. 675, Sp. 9. 

 Kbtz, Faun. Suec. p. 183, Sp. 152. Mdll. Prod. Zool. Dan. Sp. \^&.—lHnga 

 luhata, Linn. Syst. i., p. 249, Sp. 8. Id. Faun. Suec. p. 64, Sp. 179. Rbtz. 

 Faun. Suec. 152, young. Mull. Prod. Zool. Dan. p. 195. Fabr. Faun. Grosn 

 p. 109, Sp. 75, adult and young and history. Bkcnn. Orn. Bor. p. 51, Sp. 171, 

 young (N. B. Not of Gmel. who under this name had in view the Ph. fulicarius, 

 though he unaccountably retained the Linnean phrase). — Tringa fusca, Gmel. 

 Syst. I., p. 675, Sp. 33, young. — Phalaropus hyperboreus, Lath. Ind. Orn. n., p. 

 775, Sp. 1. MuLLEK, Sp. 196. Trans. Linn. Soc. Memoir Birds of Greenland, 

 XII., p. 535. Temm. Man. Orn. 1st ed. p. 457. In. Man. Orn. 2d ed. ii., p. 709. 

 Sabine, App- Franklin's Exp. p. 690. Nob. Add. Orn. U. S. in Ann. Tjyc. N. 

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