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WILSON’S PHALAROPE. 
PHALJMOPUS IFILSOJVII. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 1, Adult. Plate XXV. Fig. 1, Young. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, Gray Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, Vol. IX, p. 
72, pi. 73, fig. 2, for a very bad figure and imperfect account; and a much better 
one illustrating the same figure in the second edition of the same volume, called by 
Mr. Ord, Supplement to the American Ornithology of Wilson, under the name of 
Brown Phalarope, Phalaropus loba/us, p. 232. 
Phalaropus Wilsonii, Sabine, Zool. App. Franklin's Exp. p. 691. Nob. Obs. Wils. 
sp. 233. Id. Add. Orn. U. S. in Ann. Lyc. N. Y. II, p. 159. Id. Suppl. Syn. in 
Zool. Journ. Bond. Id. Cat. and Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 279. Id. Speech. Comp. 
Phalaropusfreenatus, Vieill. Gal. Ois. II, p. 178, pi. 271. 
Phalaropus fimbriatus , Temm. PI. Col. 370. 
Lobipes fimbriatus, Selby and Jaudine, Orn. III. 1 , Syn. sp. 2, Adult. 
Lobipes incanus, Selby and Jard. Orn. III. 1, Syn. Sp. 3, tab. 16. Young. 
Phalarope lisere, Temm. loc. cit. 
Phalarope bride, Vieill. loc. cit. 
American Phalarope, Sabine, loc. cit. Lath. Gen. Hist. X, p. 4, sp. 2. 
Philadelphia Museum, Adult. Leadbcaler's Collection, Young-. 
This beautiful, and as regards system, so remarkable bird, was 
first discovered by Wilson, who, had he lived to publish the 
species himself, would doubtless have fixed it on the same firm 
basis as in other instances of the kind. But death put an end to 
his labours, and to the advantage which science daily realized 
from them, when among other important materials this Phalarope 
remained in his portfolio. It became the task of friendship to 
publish a few rough notes and unfinished sketches, the present 
among the rest, and a figure was thus produced impossible to be 
recognized except upon actual reference to the specimen itself. 
