FAMILY XXII. 
PINNATIPEBES , Brisson. 
GENUS LVII. — PHALAROP US, Brisson. 
SUBGENUS I. PHALAROPUS, CUVIER. 
241 . PHALAROPUS FULICARNIS, BONAPARTE. PHALAROPUS \ 
HYPERBOREUS , WILSON. — BROWN PHALAROPE.* 
WILSON, PLATE LXXIII. FIG. III. 
Of this species only one specimen was ever seen by 
Wilson, and that was preserved in Trowbridge’s Museum, 
at Albany, in the State of New York. On referring to 
Wilson’s Journal, I found an account of the bird, there 
called a tringa , written with a lead pencil, but so 
scrawled and obscured that parts of the writing were 
not legible. I wrote to Mr Trowbridge, soliciting a 
particular description ; but no answer was returned. 
However, having had the good fortune, since publishing 
the first edition, of examining a fine recent specimen 
of this rare bird, I hope I shall be enabled to fix the 
species by such characters as will prevent any ornitho- 1 
logist in future from confounding it with the species 
which follows, — -two birds, which, owing to a want of 
precision, were involved in almost inextricable confu- 
sion, until Temminck applied himself to the task of 
disembroiling them ; and this ingenious naturalist has 
fully proved that the seven species of authors consti- | 
tuted, in effect, only two species. | 
Temminck’ s distinctive characters are drawn from ] 
the bill ; and he has divided the genus into two 
sections, — an arrangement of which, the utility is not 
evident, seeing that each section contains but one 
species, unless we may consider the barred phalarope of 
* Named in the plate, Gray Phalarope. The description of the 
bird is written by Mr Ord. 
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