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RED PHALAROPE. 



PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREA. 

 [Plate LXXIIL— Fig. 4.] 



Phalaropus hyperhoreus, Latham, Intl. Oim, p. 775. Idem, III, pt. 1, p. 270. — Br. Zool. II, Js''o. 

 219. Jlrct. Zool. JVo. 4.13. — Tringa fulicaria, Faun. Succ. J\'*o. 179. Faun. Gi'cenl. eA'o. 76.— 

 Beunjvich, JV*o. 172. — MuiiER, tN'o. 196. — Tringa hyperhoreaf Turt. Syst. 1, 407. — Le Fhalarope 

 rouge, Biiff. Ois. XV, p. 348. PI. enl. 766. — J>e Plialarope cendre, Biiiss. Om. YI, jj. 15, 2. — 

 Raii, Syn. p. 132, A. 7. — Small cloven-footed Gull, Will. Orn. p. 555. — Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. 

 142, 143.— Eed Coot footed Tringa, Bartram, 294.— Bewick, II, 131.— Peace's Museum, JV'o. 4088. 



THIS species measures nine inches in length, and fifteen in 

 breadth ; the front and crown are black, barred transversely with 

 lines of white ; bill orange, an inch long, broad above, black to- 

 wards the tip ; throat, sides of the neck, and lower parts white, 

 thickly and irregularly barred with curving dashes of reddish cho- 

 colate ; the upper parts are of a deep slate color, streaked with 

 brownish yellow and black; the black scapulars broadly edged with 

 brownish yellow; tail plain pale olive; middle of the tail coverts 

 black, sides bright brownish yellow; rump and wings dark slate; 

 the primaries are nearly black, and crossed with white, as usual, 

 below their coverts ; greater wing coverts broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a large band; vent white, those feathers immedi- 

 ately next the tail reddish chocolate ; legs black on the outside, 

 yellowish within ; hind toe small and partly pinnate. 



The Red Plialarope is a very rare bird in Pennsylvania ; and, 

 as far as we can learn, is but seldom met with in any part of the 

 union. It is said that they come into Hudson^s Bay the beginning 

 of June, and lay four eggs, about the middle of that month, on a 

 dry spot ; the young fly in August, and they depart to the south- 

 ward in September. Whether or no they breed within the terri- 



