WILSON’S PHALARQPE 
others by sex and season: the young however is surprisingly dif¬ 
ferent for which reason we have figured it also of the full size. 
The bill is like that of the adult, somewhat gaping beyond the 
middle : the face is whitish mixed with dusky, and with a dusky 
stripe from the bill to the eye : the crown, neck above, back and 
wings are dusky brown, darker on the middle of the feathers : 
the rump upper tail-coverts and flanks broadly are white; the 
throat is pure white : the sides of the neck are tinged with rusty: 
the neck beneath and breast are white, slightly tinged with red¬ 
dish-dusky ; the belly of a purer white with a little dusky; the 
vent, and long lower tail-coverts, which reach to the tip of the tail, 
are pure white: the wings are four and three quarter inches long, 
the lower coverts white. The scapulars blacker, with pale 
rusty edges : the primaries are blackish, with pale brown shafts, 
of which the outer is white. The tail is broad and rounded, the 
middle and outer feathers somewhat longest; all of a pale dusky 
gray with white shafts, the exterior being also white on the best 
part of the inner web. All the tail-feathers are also edged with 
white. The feet are reddish black, the tarsus an inch and a 
quarter long. 
We are acquainted as yet with no peculiarity of this fine Pha- 
larope, and even the few facts registered concerning it have been 
obscured by the heedlessness of compilers. Though it appears 
to extend its migrations more to the south than its congeneric 
species, it is decidedly like them, (notwithstanding Temminck’s 
supposition to the contrary) an Arctic bird, and the only remark¬ 
able circumstance about it is that it should not also be found in 
Europe. As far as we know it is exclusively North American, 
for the specimen of the young inadvertently said by the authors 
of the Ornithological Illustrations to have come from South Ame¬ 
rica, was found in the Vera Cruz market, as appears from their 
