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white ; wing’-coverts and quills brownish-black, tinged with grey, the 
shafts of the quills, margins, and tips of secondaries, and a broad bar 
on the tip of the secondary coverts white ; tail light grey, the feathers 
margined with white, the two middle dark brownish -grey, lateral up- 
per tail-coverts white, barred with dusky ; breast and abdomen white. 
Young similar, but with the colours paler. 
Male, 6, 13^ ; wing 5|. 
Rarely seen south of New York. Plentiful at some periods from 
Massachusetts to Maine. Abundant in the Bay of Fundy during 
spring and autumn. Breeds in Labrador and along all the Arctic 
coast. Migratory, 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, Bonap. Syn. p. 342. 
Hyperborean Phalarope, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 239. 
Hyperborean Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ill. p. 118 5 
V. V. p. 595. 
342. 2. Lobipes Wilsonii, Sabine. Wilson’s Lobefoot. 
Plate CCLIV. Male and Young. 
Bill half as long again as the head; membranes of the toes merely sinu- 
ous, tail nearly even ; general colour of upper parts brownish-grey, hind 
neck and rump greyish-white, crown of head ash-grey ; a white line 
over the eye ; a band of black on the lore, under the eye, and down the 
side of the neck, where it enlarges, and changes into chestnut-red, ex- 
tending down the back ; another chestnut band crosses the wing, and 
includes part of the inner secondaries ; quills greyish-brown, outer 
primaries and their coverts much darker, the shaft of the first white, 
tail-feathers pale brownish-grey on the outer, white more or less mot- 
tled on the inner webs ; throat and cheeks white ; fore neck orange- 
brown, fading below, and extending paler over the sides of the body ; 
breast, abdomen, and lower wing-coverts white. 
Adult, 10, I7i 
Procured in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Boston. Breeds abun- 
dantly on the Rocky Mountains. Saskatchewan River. Winters in 
Mexico. 
Grey Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. ix. p. 72. 
Phalaropus Wilsonii, Bonap. Syn. p. 342. 
Wilson’s Phalarope, Phalaropus Wilsonii, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 59. 
Phalaropus Wilsonii, Wilson’s Phalarope, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii . 
p. 405. 
American Phalarope, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 245. 
Wilson’s Phalarope, Phalaropus Wilsonii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 400. 
GENUS IV. TOTANUS, Bechst. TATLER. 
Bill much longer than the head, very slender, subcylin- 
drical, straight, flexible, compressed at the base, the point 
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