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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 
sufficiently 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 con- 
sistency in the generic characters, which Temminck, in his Ma- 
nuel, has not sufficiently observed. 
In the appendix to Montagu’s Supplement to the Ornitholo- 
gical Dictionary, we find the following remarks on this species, 
there n?LvaeCifuKcaria: “We have before mentioned, that this 
bird had been observed in the Orknies, in considerable abund- 
ance, in the suinmer, 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 further elucidation 
of the natural history of this elegant little bird. In a letter to the 
author, this gentlemen says, “I found the Red Phalarope common 
in the marshes of Sanda and Westra, in the breeding season, 
but which it leaves in the autumn. This bird is so extremely 
tame 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 colour, 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.”* 
Note . — Since the foregoing was written, I have had an op- 
portunity of examining the identical specimen, from which Wil- 
son’s drawing was taken, as it still remains in the Albany Mu- 
seum. It is of ihe same species as the individual in the Phila- 
delphia Museum, and wliich is described, above, in detail. That 
* From Mr. Ord’s supplementary volume. 
