ORDER VIII. PINNATIPEDES. PINNATED FEET. 
GENUS 82. PHALAROPUS. PHALAROPE. 
SPECIES 1. P. FULICARIUS. 
GRAY PHALAROPE.* 
[Plate LXXIII.— Fig. 4. ] 
Tringa Fulicaria, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, tom. i, p. 148, 6. — Tringa 
glacialis, Gmel. Syst. i, p. 675, 2. T. hyperborea, var. b,ld.p. 
676. — Le Phalarope, Briss. Orn. vi, p. 12, JVo. 1. Phalaropus 
rufescens, Id. p. 20. — Phalaropus lobatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 
776, 2. P. glacialis, Id. JVo. 3. lied Phalarope, fern. Gen. Syn. 
3, p. 271. Gray Phalarope, Id.p. 272, 2. Plain Phalarope, Id. 
p. 273, 3. — Gray Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. JVo. 218. Urct. 
Zool. JVo. 412. lied Phalarope, Id. JVo. 413. Plain Phalarope, 
Id. J\o. 415. lied Coot-footed Tringa, Edwards, pi. 142. Gray 
Coot-footed Tringa, Id. Gleanings, Pi. 308. — Le Phalarope 
rouge, Buff. Ois. viii, p. 29,5. Le Phalarope afestons denteles. 
Id. p. 226. — Gray Phalarope, Montagu, Orn. Die. and ,9ppen- 
dix to Sup. — Bewick, II, p. 132. — Le Phalarope gris, Cuv. 
Reg. An. i, p. 492. Le Phalarope rouge. Id. ibid.—Phaloropus 
platyrhinchus, Temm. Jffan. d’Orn. p. 712. — Peale’s J\luseum, 
JVo. 4088. 
Bill pretty stout and wide, slightly compressed at the tip, 
depressed on the lower half, upper mandible carinate; nostrils 
subovate, a short distance from the base; feet semipalmate, 
lobes of the toes broad and greatly scalloped; hind toe barely 
touching the ground. 
Bill reddish orange at the base, the remainder black, an inch 
long; front and crown black, barred transversely with line^ of 
'Named in the plate Red Phalarope. 
