610 GLEANINGS. 



the northwest; but it is rare to the eastward. The 3 or 4 

 eggs, in a slight depression in the ground, some 2.00X1.32, 

 and pointed, are olivaceous-drab, thickly but not very 

 coarsely marked with dark brown. 



The Stilt (Himantopics nigricollis), some 14.60 long, glossy 

 black, forehead, sides of the head and neck, rump and 

 under parts, white, is more or less common to the United 

 States in summer, but is not often found north of the Caro- 

 linas on the eastern coast. The nidification is similar to 

 that of the former; and the 3 or 4 eggs, some 1.65 X 1.20, are 

 very nearly the same in coloration. 



The Phalaropes, three in number, and of small size, are 

 a sort of membranous or lobe-footed Sandpiper. Wilson's 

 Phalarope (Fhalaropus wilsont), some 9 inches long, light- 

 gray above, wings brown, the dark stripe through the eye 

 beco.ming purplish-chestnut on the sides of the neck, upper 



THE HEAD OF WILSOn's AND THE FOOT OF THE NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 



tail-coverts and under parts, white, is distributed in summer 

 from Kansas to the Saskatchawan, but is simply a rare mi- 

 grant in the east. It has been taken in Western New York 

 in the fall. It has the membrane on the toe straight-edged. 

 The northern Phalarope (F. hyperboreas) is about 7.50 long; 



