THE BIRD BOOK 
Male, female, young'. 
Wilson’s Phalarope 
224. Wilson’s Phalarope. 
Steganopus tricolor. 
Range. — Interior of temperate North America, 
breeding from the latitude of Iowa, northward, 
and wintering south of the United States. 
This is the most handsome species of the fam- 
ily, being of a very graceful form, of a grayish 
and white color, with a broad stripe through the 
eye and down the neck, where it fades insensibly 
into a rich chestnut 
color. It is an ex- 
clusively American 
species and is rare 
ly found near the 
coast. It builds its 
nest generally in a 
tuft of grass, the 
nests also being of 
grass. The eggs 
are of a brownish or greenish buff color, spotted 
and blotched with black and brown. Size 1.30 x 
.90. Data.- — Larimore, N. D„ May 30, 1897. Nest 
a shallow depression, scratched in the sand, under 
a tuft of grass on an island. Collector, T. F. 
Eastgate, 
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