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60. CRYMOPHILUS FULICARIUS (Linn.). 



RED PIIALAROPE. 



Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i. p. 148 (1758). 



Crymophilusfulicarius, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 693 (1896) ; Henshaw, Auk, xvii. p. 203 (1900). 



" Brother Matthias, of the Catholic Brotherhood, has a mounted specimen of this bird in 

 winter dress which he shot, together with several others, on the island of Maui in December 

 1891. So far as I am aware, this is the first record of the bird's occurrence upon the Islands. 

 Brother Matthias informs me that the Phalaropes frequent some small inland ponds at 

 Kalialui and are of not uncommon though irregular occurrence, two or three years often 

 elapsing between their visits. 



" At the same time and place Brother Matthias shot two American Curlews (not the 

 Bristle-thighed), which I judge from his description to be probably Numenim hudsomcus. 

 These specimens are still extant, and later I hope to be able to see and to identify positively 

 the species. 



" Since the above was written I shot another Red Phalarope from a flock of Akekeke 

 (Armaria interpres) on the Hawaiian coast, near Hilo, April 6th. The bird may yet be found 

 to be an irregular winter visitor to Hawaii, coming down with the flocks of Plovers and 

 Turnstones. That it should associate with the Turnstone, and with them feed in the upland 

 cane-fields, is rather remarkable. The flock from which my specimen was shot was on its 

 way from upland to its roosting-places on the coast." (He)ishaw.) 



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