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PHALAROPES. 
ratively short ; tibiae naked for a short space 
above the tarsal joint ; tarsus somewhat com- 
pressed ; toes before, at the base, connected, 
and on their edges fringed with a lobed mem- 
brane ; hallux slender, naked. 
Type, P. lobatus. Northern Europe, the Arctic 
Circle, Northern Asia. 
Note . — Breed on the sea shore ; swim, and ven- 
ture far out to sea ; undergo a seasonal change. 
The second form was separated by Cuvier, under 
the title of Lobipes, and contains two species, that of 
Britain, and an American bird, L. Wilsonii, given 
also in ornithological works, under the titles of 
“ Frenatus"* and “ Incanus .” f In L. Wilsonii , the 
the form of the bill is intermediate, being straight, 
depressed for its whole length, and slightly dilated 
towards the tip ; the tarsi are remarkably flattened, 
and with the whole leg and foot are proportionally 
more slender than in L. hyperborca; the lobed mem- 
brane to the toes is also less broadly developed. 
Lobipes, Cuvier. — Generic characters Bill 
proportionally longer than in Phalaropus, slen- 
der, straight, grooved; depressed for half its 
length, at the tip subulate, the mandible there 
slightly deflexed, nostrils lateral, basal, sur- 
* Temminck, pi. color. 
+ Jardine and Selby, Illust. of Omith. 
