78 BIRDS OF ILLFNOIS. 



Sp. Ghab. Adult, summer plumage : Entire lower parts deep purplish cinnamon; sides 

 of head white. Back and scapulars light oohraoeous or buff, striped with black; wing- 

 coverts deep bluish plumbeous, the greater widely tipped with pure white ; remiges plum- 

 beous-dusky. Lining ot the wing white, bordered exteriorly with dusky grayish, Male: 

 Crown and nape streaked, like the back; white on side of head not well defined. Female : 

 Cro wn uniform plumbeous-blaek or dark plumbeous, the white on side of the head sur- 

 rounding the eyes, and abruptly defined, the nape unstreaked cinnamon and plumbeous. 

 Adult and young in winter: Head, neck and lower parts pure white, the occiput and a 

 space partly or completely surrounding the eyes dark plumbeous. Upper parts uniform 

 fine pearl-gray or light bluish plumbeous, the remiges slate-color. Toung, flrstplumuge : 

 Crown, nape, back, and scapulars dull black, the feathers edged with ochraceous; wing- 

 coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plumbeous, the middle coverts bordered with pale 

 buff, the tail-coverts with ochraceous. Head (except crown) and lower parts generally, 

 white ; the throat and jugulum suffused with brownish buff. Downy young : Above, bright 

 tawny-buff, marked with broad irregular stripes ot black; superciliary stripe bright tawny 

 buff, Ihe two of opposite sides separated only by a il&rrow and sometimes interrupted 

 dusky streak; pUeum bright raw-umber brown, bordered exteriorly with black; chin and 

 throat light fulvous-buff, changing to smoky buff on jugulum; rest of lower parts dull 

 whitish. 



Total length, about 7.50 inches; wing, about 5.25-5.50; cuhnen, .80-.95; tarsus, .80-.85; 

 middle toe, .75-.80. 



"the Red Phalarope occuns in Illinois as a rare migra.nt. Its 

 summer home is in the Arctic regions, which it leaves after the, 

 assumption of its winter plumage, which is so unlike that of 

 summer as to give the bird a totally different appearance. 



(tENUS PHALAROPUS Brisson. 

 Subgenus Phalaropus. 



Phalaropus Bbiss. Cm. vi, 1760, 12. Type, by elimination, Tringa lobata Linn. 

 Lobipes " Cuv. Bfeg. Anim. 1817." Type, Tringa hyperborea LiNN.,= !r !o6oto Linn. 



Chab. Similar to Grymophilus, but bill subulate, and the nostrils ^trictly basal. 



Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.) 



NOBTHESN FHALABOPE. 



Tringa lobata Linn. S. N. ed. 10, i, 1758, 148; ed. 12, i, 1766, 249. 

 Lobipes loiatus B. B. & E. Water B. N. Am. i, 1884, 3S0. 

 Phalaropus lobatus StbjN. Auk, li, 1885, 183.— A. O. U. Check List, 1886. No. 223.— EiDow. 



Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 145. 

 Tringa hyperborealASS. S. N. ed. 12, i, 1766, 249 (based on Faun. Suee. 179; Edw. 143; Will. 



270; Bay, 'iS/i.— Phalaropus cinerevs Bkiss. Orn. vi, 5). 

 Phalaropus hyperboreus (male) Lath. Ind. Orn, ii, 1790, 775 (exol. syn.; supposed female 



=0. fulicarius).—'Svn. Man. ii, 1834, 239.— AuD. Orn. Biog. ill, 1835, 118; v, 1839. 595, 



pi. 215.— Cass, in Balrd's B. N. Am. 1858. 706.— Baibd. Oat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 520. 

 Lobipes hyperboreus Cuv. E6g. Anim.i,ed. 1829, 532.— AuD. Synop. 1839, 210; B. Am. v,1842, 



295, pi, 340.— OOUBS, Key, 1872, 248; Check List, 1873, No. 410; 2d ed, 1882, No. 60S; B. N. 



W. 1874, 469.-EiDaw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1882. No. 664. 



