1880 
Phalaropus fulicarius. 
ji Maina (Laka Umbagog ) . 
Sept,15. 
il 
Killed,throe adult males and one immature female on 
the bar at the mouth of the River. They ’.Tore feeding 
along the v/ater’s edge in company v/ith a Hyperborean 
Phalaropo and vz-ero very tame and Very interesting. As 
they ran along the shore, sometimes vmding knee-deep in 
the v;ater, they constantly nodded their heads ■/i th a 
graceful Ooot-like motion and alternately present '•d their 
beautiful marbled backs and sno’vy breasts, while the 
slender nect arid head were rievor still. Their movements 
wore exceedingly rapid and so erratic that they reminded 
me of ants. As my ^uido sair'.; “they acted as’rif cra¬ 
zy”. Occas i oiial 1 y orie vrould take to the vrater a,rid svrim- 
rning off a few yards turn over nearly on its back and 
plume itself precisely in the manner of the Little 'uk. 
At length I fired at two together and killed both, one 
proving to be a Red Phalarope, the other a Hyperborean. 
I noticed no difference between t’ em vrhen alive. The 
two survivors rose at the shot and joined a flock of 
“Peeps”, scaling about with them for a fevr moments and 
then alighting in the original place vrhen I killed them, 
both. These Phalaropes uttered an emphatic zip, zip 
very like that of Trin; t a bonap^rtet. hTeen flying they' 
snov/ed a liarrov/ v/’hito bar on each wing and appeared near¬ 
ly as v/hite as Sandling. Their first flight v/as swift, 
erratic, and generally similar to that of the smaller 
Tringae. Irides dark haZel. Stomachs contained small 
mud vzorms. 
