190 
BROWN PHALAROPE. 
tail, rounded; legs and feet, greenish yellow; claws, long, 
sharp, and of a pale flesh colour ; span of the foot, five inches. 
BROWN PHALAROPE PHALAROPUS LOBATUS. 
Plate LXXIIL Fig. 3. 
Tringa lobata, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, tom. i. p. 148, 5. — T. hyperborea, Id. ed. 12, tom. 
i. p. 249, 9. — Tringa lobata, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 674, 6, — T. fusca. Id. p. 675, 33. 
— T. hyperborea, Id. No. 9. — Phalaropus cinereus, JBriss. Orn. vi. p. 15. — P. 
fuscus, Id. p. 18. — Le Phalarope cendre, Luff. Ois. viii. p. 224. PI. enl. 766 
Coot-footed Tvhxgdi^ Edwards, pi. 46. — Cock Coot-footed Tringa, Id. pi. 143. — Red 
Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 219 Brown Phalarope, Arct. Zool. No. 414. 
— Phalaropus hyperboreus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 775, !.■ — P. fuscus. Id. p. 776, 
4 Red Phalarope, Gen. Syn. ill. p. 270, 1. Id. p. 272, var. A. — Brown Pha- 
larope, Id. p. 274, 4 Red Phalarope, Montagu, Orn. Diet. Id. Supp. Ap- 
pendix. — Phalaropus hyperboreus, Temm. Man. d' Orn. p. 709. — Le LobipMe a 
hausse-col, Cuv. Reg. An. i. p. 495. 
LOBIPES WILSONIf. —J ardine.* 
Phalaropus (sub-gen. holopodius), Bonap. Synop. p. 342. — Phalaropus Wilsonii, 
Sab. App. to Frank. Narrat. p. 691. — Lobipes incanus, Jarc?. and Selby, lUust. 
Ornith. pi. 25. Phalaropus Wilsonii, North Zool. ii. pi. 69. 
Of this species, only one specimen was ever seen by Wil- 
son, and that was preserved in Trowbridge’s Museum, at 
■* In the small group known as Phalaropus we have two forms, distinguished 
by the stouter make, the flat- formed bill, and the developement of the webs to the 
toes in the one, and by the slender bill and greater alliance of the other to the 
Totani, The Prince of Musignano has instituted another sub-group from what 
appears to me to be only the greater developement of the latter form. Following 
the arrangement of Cuvier, I have retained Lobipes for those of slender make, and 
Phalaropus for that of this country, and only one yet discovered. 
I have little hesitation in considering the L. incanus of ornithological illustra- 
tions, to be this bird in imperfect plumage. Bonapai’te is of opinion that the 
American bird was a new species ; Mr Ord, that it is some undescribed state of 
P. hyperboreus : with the former of these opinions I agree, and have accordingly 
adopted the specific name which Sabine had previously chosen for it, but have 
referred it to the genus Lobipes of Cuvier. This plate of our author is one of the 
very few exceptions where an imperfect representation of the bird is given, the 
