Order CHARADRIIFORMES. Family PHALAROPIDM. 
No. 126. 
LOBIPES LOBATUS. 
RED-NECKED or NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 
(Plates 91&93.) 
Tringa lobata Linn6, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p . 148, Jan. 1st, 1758. Hudson Bay, North America 
( tobata=lobata , p. 824). 
Phalaropus Jiyperboreus Dresser Birds Europe, Vol. VII., p. 597, pi. 537 (pt. 32), 1874; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 698, 1S96 (pref., July 10th). 
Lobipes lobatus Forbush, Birds ^Massachusetts, p. 375, pi. 24 (adults in breeding-plumage and 
winter), 1925 (Nov.), Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas, p. 183, June 13th, 1927 (synonymy); 
Bent, Life Hist. North Arner. Shore Birds (Limicolce, pt. I., p ( 15, 1927 (pref., Nov. loth); 
Oliver, New Zeal. Birds, p. 318, August, 1930. 
Adult female in breeding-plumage. Fore-head, crown, nape, sides of face and lores blackish-slate, 
eyes bordered above and below with white ; mantle, upper back and scapulars dull blackish- 
slate, some of the latter margined with cinnamon-buff ; a broad band of rich cinnamon-buff 
down each side of the mantle ; lower back greyish-black, narrowly margined with white; 
central upper tail-coverts dull brownish-black ; lateral upper tail-coverts white marked and 
barred with black ; central tail-feathers brownish-slate ; lateral tail-feathers lighter, all 
narrowly margined with white ; primaries blackish-brown with white shafts ; wing-coverts 
and secondaries like the mantle, the latter broadly tipped with white ; chin and throat white; 
a broad collar of reddish-chestnut round the sides of the neck to the nape, sometimes inter¬ 
rupted on the upper chest ; sides of the chest, and upper breast brownish-slate ; sides of the 
body smoky-brown, broadly margined with white ; sides of the breast smoky-brown, centre 
of breast and remainder of under-parts white. Eyes blackish, bill blackish, legs and feet 
blue-grey. Total length 170 mm. : culmen 22, wing 117, tail 52, tarsus 21. Liosavatn, 
Iceland, July 3rd, 1888. 
Adult male in breeding-plumage . Similar to the adult female described above, but all the dark 
portions of the plumage lighter and more grey in colour, with the feathers edged with buff 
and t ipped with white. The bands dowm the sides of the mantle chestnut and the tawny 
band across the upper breast less extensive. Total length 190 mm. : culmen 21, wing 110, 
tail 50 ; tarsus 21. Figured. Collected on Baring Island on May 29th, 1890. 
Adult female in winter plumage. Feathers of the lores, fore-head and crown pure white ; occiput dull 
black, back of the neck, sides of the mantle, back and scapulars dark slate-grey margined 
with white ; low r er back, rump and upper tail-coverts greyish-browm, margined and tipped 
with white ; tail dark ash-grey ; primaries blackish-browm with white shafts ; a large black 
spot in front of the eye continued to the ear-coverts ; under-surface of the body w hite ; sides 
of the body and flanks dark slate-grey. Total length, 200 mm. culmen 21, wing 112, tail 49, 
tarsus 21. Figured. Collected near New Guinea on December 4th, 1899. 
Young male. Fore-head golden-buff ; crown, nape and mantle dull brownish-black, sides of the 
mantle bordered with golden-buff converging to a point on the lower back ; scapulars 
biownish-black, broadly margined with golden-buff on both w'ebs ; wing-eoverts brownish- 
black tipped with white ; primaries greyish-black with white shafts, narrowly tipped on the 
inner webs with white ; secondaries greyish-black, broadly margined and tipped with white; 
lower back rump and upper tail-coverts dull black, the latter slightly tipped with golden- 
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