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and middle toe not reaching to the second joint, and the latera 
membrane narrow, and scarcely scalloped. 
Only one species, peculiar to America, is known, viz. 
I. Wilson’s ph.alarope. steganopus tricolor. 
S/eganopus tricolor, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xx.xii. p. 136 
(1819). 
Phalaropus wilsoni, Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 552, note (1889). 
Adult Female in Breeding Plumage. — General colour above light 
grey in the middle of the back, with a^broad streak of vinous- 
chestnut on each side of the mantle ; scapulars for the most 
part dark vinous-chestnut, forming a broad streak on each side 
of the back ; lower back and rump brown, the sides of the 
latter white; upper tail-coverts dusky-brown, irregularly mottled 
and edged with white, the longer ones centred with pale rufous, 
the lateral ones pure white ; wing-coverts uniform dull brown, 
with a narrow white edging to the greater coverts ; bastard- 
wing and primary-coverts like the wing-coverts ; quills also 
dusky-brown with light brown shafts, the first primary with a 
white shaft; centre tail-feathers ashy-brown, the remainder 
ashy-brown, with more or less white on the inner web, the 
white increasing in extent towards the outermost rectrix, 
which has little more than the outer web ashy ; crown of head 
uniform pearly-grey ; occiput, nape, and hind-neck white ; 
lores grey, like the head, followed by a white ante-ocular spot, 
which is surrounded by a black margin ; upper eyelid also 
white, lower eyelid black, like the feathers in front of the 
eye and below the latter, where they form part of a black band 
formed by the ear-coverts, and the sides of the neck and sides 
of the crown ; cheeks, chin, and upper throat white ; lower 
throat clear ferruginous or chestnut, sharply defined on the 
upper margin, and becoming paler on tbe fore-neck and sides 
of breast; centre of fore-neck, breast, and under surface of 
body pure white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries also white, 
the feathers round the edge of the wing ashy-brown ; quills 
below dusky-brown, slightly paler along in the inner web ; bill 
black ; feet bluish-grey, claws black ; iris brown. Total length, 
9-3 inches ; culmen, 1-45 ; wing, 5-5 ; tail, 2-3; tarsus, 1-35. 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Much duller than in the 
