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BROWN PHALAROPE. (Phalaropus lobatus.) 
PLATE LXXIII.—Fie. 3. 
Tringa lobata, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, tom. i. p. 148, 5.—T. hyperborea, Jd. ed. 12, 
tom. i. p. 249, 9.—Tringa lobata, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 764, 6.—T. fusca, Id. p. 
675, 33.—T. hyperborea, Id. No. 9.—Phalaropus cinereus, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 
15.—P. fuscus, Id. p. 18.—Le Phalarope Cendré, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 224.—PIl. 
enl. 766.—Coot-footed Tringa, Hdwards, pl. 46.—Cock Coot-footed Tringa, 
Id. pl. 143.—Red Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 219.—Brown Phalarope, 
Arct. Zool. No. 414.—Phalaropus hyperboreus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 775, 1.— 
P. fuscus, Id. p. 776, 4.—Red Phalarope, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 270, 1.—Jd. p. 
272, var. A.—Brown Phalarope, Jd. p. 274, 4.—Red Phalarope, Montagu, 
Orn. Dict. Id. Supp. and Appendix.—Phalaropus hyperboreus, Zemm. Man. 
@ Orn. p. 709.—Le Lobipéde a hausse-col, Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. p. 495. 
LOBIPES WILSONII.—JARDINE.* 
Phalaropus (subgen. Holopodius), Bonap. Synop. p. 342.—Phalaropus Wilsonii, 
Sab. App. to Frank. Nurrat. p. 691.—Lobipes incanus, Jard. and Selby, 
Lilust. Ornith. pl. 25.—Phalaropus Wilsonii, Worth. Zool. ii. pl. 69. 
OF this species, only one specimen was ever seen by Wilson, 
and that was preserved in Trowbridge’s Museum, at Albany, 
* Tn the small group known as Phalaropus we have two forms, dis- 
tinguished by the stouter make, the flat-formed bill, and the develop- 
ment of the webs to the toes in the one, and by the slender bill and 
greater alliance of the other to the Zotani. The Prince of Musignano 
has instituted another sub-group from what appears to me to be only the 
greater development of the latter form. Following the arrangement of 
Cuvier, I have retained Lobipes for those of slender make, and Phalaropus 
for that of this country, and only one yet discovered, 
I have little hesitation in considering the L, incanus of ornithological 
illustrations to be this bird in imperfect plumage. Bonaparte is of 
opinion that the American bird was a new species; Mr Ord, that it is 
some undescribed state of P. hyperboreus: with the former of these 
opinions I agree, and have accordingly adopted the specific name which 
Sabine had previously chosen for it, but have referred it to the genus 
Lobipes of Cuvier. This plate of our author is one of the very few ex- 
ceptions where an imperfect representation of the bird is given, the 
figure being much too stout and thick, and not of that more elegant form, 
one of the characteristics of the Totani. 
Under this division will also range the little red-necked phalarope, 
Lobipes hyperboreus of Temminck, and the present type of the genus. 
According to Bonaparte, this species is exceedingly rare and accidental 
in the United States. It will appear in the forthcoming volumes of 
that gentleman’s illustrations.—ED. 
