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ZOOLOGY. 
F amil y P IIALA110PODIDAE .—T he Phalaropes. 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOEEUS, (Linn.) Temm. 
Northern Plialarope. 
Tringa hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1,1766,249. 
Lobipes hyperboreus, “ Cuv. R. A.”—Bon. List, 1838 .—Aud. Syn. 1839, 240 .—Ib. Birds Amer. Y, 1842, 295 ; pi. 340. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, Temm. Man. II, 1820,709 .—Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835,118: Y, 595 ; pi. 215 .—Baird & Cassin, 
Gen. Rep. Birds, 706. 
Figures.—B uff. PI. Enl. 766.—Edwards, Birds, III, pi. 143,46,308.—Aud. B. of Am. pi. 254 ; oct. ed. Y, pi. 340. 
Sh. Cn.—Bill short, straight, pointed; wings long ; tail short; legs short. Adult: 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 flanks 
ashy, frequently mixed with reddish ; throat, breast, and abdomen white; hill 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, 7 to 8 inches ; extent, 13£ to 14 ; wing, 4£ ; tail, ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, § inch. Female smallest. Iris 
brown ; legs bright slate color ; hill black. 
Hah .—Ihe whole of temperate North America, Europe, Japan, (Mr. Heine, Japan Exp ) San Francisco, California, (Mr. 
Cutts.) 
The lobefoot passes in spring and fall through the Territory in small flocks, which associate 
sometimes with the sandpipers, but seem to prefer wetter feeding grounds, wading in the 
shallow creeks at low tide, and even swimming in the ocean several miles off shore. In August, 
1853, I saw a pair either of this or the next species swimming on a small lake on the summit 
of the Cascade mountains, where they probably had a nest. The young birds appear near the 
mouth of the Columbia as early as July.—C. 
Several specimens of this species I obtained on Puget Sound and Admiralty inlet in August, 
1856. About the middle of the latter month individual birds arrive from the north, and 
towards its close become quite abundant on the sound. They there seem to feed and live 
principally among beds of kelp and floating patches of dead sea-weed, being rarely seen on 
the shore. They swim well, and take wing very readily from the water. In the locality just 
mentioned they are not at all shy, but are readily approached and shot.—S. 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS, (Linn.) Bon. 
Red Plialarope. 
Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1,1766, 249. 
Phalaropus fulicarius, Bon. Ohs. Wils. 1825, 232.— Ib. Syn. 1828, 341 .—Swainson, F. Bor. Amer. II, 1831,407.— 
Nutt. Man. II, 236 .—Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835,404; pi. 255.— Ib. Syn. 239.— Ib. Birds 
Amer. V, 1842, 291; pi. 339 .—Baird & Cassin, Gen. Rep. Birds, 707. 
Figures.—E dwards, Birds, III, pi. 142.—Wilson, Am. Orn. IX, pi. 73, fig. 4.—Aud. B. of Am. pi. 255 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 339. 
Sr. Ch.—B ill strong, flattened, widened towards the end ; wings long ; tail short; legs short; plumage thick and compact, 
bke the swimming birds. Adult: Head above, space around the base of the bill, throat, and back, brownish black, feathers of 
the last edged broadly with pale ochre yellow ; wings and tail ashy brown, paler on the wing coverts; greater wing coverts 
widely tipped with white; stripe on the cheek white. Entire under parts deep brownish red, inclining to purple on the 
abdomen, and with a glaucous cast in very mature specimens ; under wing coverts and axillaries pure white ; bill greenish 
yellow ; feet dark bluish brown. Young: Entire upper parts light cinereous ; head above and wings darker, and mixed with 
blackish brown ; head in front, and entire under parts, white ; tips of greater wing coverts white. Total length, from 7£ 
to 8| inches; extent, 16 ; wing, 5£; tail, 2|; bill, 1 ; tarsus, f inch. Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 
Hab .—Entire temperate regions of North Anferica ; Asia ; Europe. 
