472 HYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 
stretter, Bechst. Nat. Deutschl. ii. p. 317.—Meyer, Vog. Deutschl. i. Heft. 
15, fig. 2 and 3, young at different ages.—Naum. Vog. Nachts. ii. p. 80, fig. 
24, young.—Fisklita, Act. Nidr. iii. p. 575.—Bam. ii. p. 407.—Norduest 
Fugl, Bom. Nat. Hist. v. p. 599.—Nuorte-ladde, v. Bieggush, Liewr. Fin- 
mark, p. 290.—My Collection, adult and young. - 
By giving a representation of this phalarope, besides that we 
add a species to the American ornithology, we make good our 
promise of settling an important question. A glance at our 
figure of the hyperborean phalarope, here brought into com- 
parison with the young Wilson’s phalarope, will at once evince 
the incorrectness of Mr Ord’s refined distinctions, and ultimate 
decision that they were the same bird. This comparison shows 
more conclusively than any argument to be found in our re- 
spective writers on this subject what are the real facts. We 
have previously observed, when illustrating the former species, 
that they even differ subgenerically, and that this one alone 
ought to form the genus Lobipes of Cuvier. 
The Lobipes of Cuvier, since called by the recent English 
writers Lobefoot, and on which Vieillot imposed the name of 
Phalaropus, is formed in our opinion of this single species, 
notwithstanding that Cuvier and some English authors include 
the P. Walsondi in it on account of its bill being similar. But 
the feet are too different to allow of such a reunion, being in 
this one precisely similar to those of the flat-billed species. 
The bill of the lobefoot is moderate in length, slender, 
smooth, cylindrical throughout, and a little stoutish at base, 
subulate to the tip, with the point narrow and sharp: the 
upper mandible curves slightly upon the lower at tip, where 
they do not quite meet, as occurs in some Yotani: the 
nostrils are not quite basal, as in the Holopodius, and are 
linear instead of the subovate form of the Crymophilus or true 
phalarope: the tongue is also filiform and acute, and by no 
means broad, fleshy, and obtuse, as in the same group, The 
tarsi are, however, longer than in this, though shorter and less 
compressed than in the Holopodius: the toes are likewise 
intermediate as to length between the two other groups: the 
middle one is connected with the inner to the first joint, and 
