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BROWN PHALAROPE. 
The genus Lobipes, of the Baron Cuvier, is founded upon this 
species ; and it must be confessed that its characters are sufficient- 
ly distinct from those of the bird which follows to authorize such a 
separation ; but unless some new species should be discovered, we 
see no impropriety in associating the two birds already known, 
taking care, however, to preserve a consistency in the generic cha- 
racters, which Temminck, in his Manuel, has not sufficiently ob- 
served. 
In the appendix to Montagu’s Supplement to the Ornithologi- 
cal Dictionary, we find the following remarks on this species, there 
named fiilicaria: “ We have before mentioned that this bird had 
been observed in the Orknies in considerable abundance in the 
summer, and that no doubts were entertained of its breeding there, 
although the nest had not been found. To Mr. Bullock, therefore, 
we are indebted for the farther elucidation of the natural history of 
this elegant little bird. In a letter to the author, this gentleman 
says, “ I found the Red Phalarope common in the mai*shes of San- 
da and Westra, in the breeding season, but which it leaves in the 
autumn. This bird is so extremely lame that I killed nine without 
moving out of the same spot, being not in the least alarmed at the 
report of a gun. It lays four eggs of the shape of that of a snipe, 
but much less, of an olive coloui-, blotched with dusky. It swims 
with the greatest ease, and when on the water looks like a beautiful 
miniature of a duck, carrying its head close to the back, in the 
manner of a Teal.” 
Mr. Bullock further observes, “that the plumage of the fe- 
male is much lighter, and has less of the rufous than the other sex.” 
