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U. S. P. R. E. EXP. AND SUEVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENEEAL EEPOET. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
7058 
o 
St. Louis. 
May 6.1857 
Lieut. Bryan. 
W. S. Wood. 
30393 
$ 
May 20,1855 
S. F. Baird. 
Th. Kuinlien. 
4346 
9.00 
16.00 
5.00 
4879 
o 
Lieut. Warren. 
Dr. Hayden. 
10.50 
16 25 
5.00 
4880 
o 
9.50 
16.12 
5.12 
4876 
V 
9.25 
16.75 
5.75 
4878 
o 
9.50 
17.50 
4.37 
4877 
V 
9.25 
16.75 
4.50 
5444 
June 23,1856 
5445 
3 
8.25 
15.00 
4.75 
6658 
Dr. Henry,U.S. A. 
8077 
Sept. —, 1836 
John Gould... . 
Lobipes, C u v . 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS, (Linn.) T e m m . 
Northern Phalarope. 
Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249. 
Lobipes hyperboreus, “ Cuv. R. A.”— Bon. List, ]838 .—Aud. Syn. 1839, 240.—In. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 295 ; pi. 340. 
Pkalaropus hyperboreus, Temm. Man. II, 1820, 709 —Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 118 : V, 595 ; pi. 215. 
Tringa lobata, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249. 
Tringa fusca, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 675. 
Pkalaropus ruficollis, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. II, 1811, 203. 
Pkalaropus cinerascens, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. II, 1811, 204. 
Figures.—B uff. PI. Enl. 766.—Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 143, 46, 308.—Pallas, Zoog. II, pi. 62.—Bonap. Ain. Orn. IV, 
pi. 25, fig. 2.—Aud. B. of Am. pi. 254 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 340. 
Sp. Ch.—B ill short, straight, pointed ; wings long; (ail short; legs short. Mult. Neck encircled with a ring of bright 
ferruginous, and a stripe of the same on each side ; head above and neck behind sooty ash ; back, wings, and tail, brownish 
black, paler on the rump, mixed with bright ferruginous on the back. Tips of greater wing coverts white. Sides and flank 8 
ashy, frequently mixed with reddish ; throat, breast, and abdomen white ; bill and legs dark. Young. Entire upper parts 
brownish black ; many feathers edged and tipped with dull yellow and ashy ; under parts white ; tips of greater wing coverts 
white. Total length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4| ; tail, 2| ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, a inch. 
Hah. —The whole of temperate North America, Europe, Japan, (Mr. Heine, Japan Exp.) San Francisco, California, (Mr. 
Cutts.) 
A very widely diffused little species, aud one of the handsomest and most graceful of the 
wading birds. Specimens from various parts of the world are precisely alike in specific 
characters. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex & 
Age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence ob¬ 
tained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Whig. 
Remarks. 
A 
Sept. 7, 1842 
S. F. Baird.... 
7.50 
13.50 
Sept. 19, 1845 
8.00 
13.50 
4.50 
570 
7.50 
13.00 
571 
569 
6661 
568 
8.50 
14.50 
4.60 
6656 
A 
May 9, 1854 
72 
7.50 
13.75 
o 
slate blue. 
8.00 
14 00 
6660 
Lt. Trowbridge. 
