RED PHALAROPE. A67 
Tringa hyperborea, LINN&US, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 249. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, LATHAM, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 775. 
Lobipes hyperboreus, CUVIER, Reg. An., i, 1829, 532. 
Adalt, dark opaque-ash or grayish- black, the back variegated with tawny ; upper tail- 
eoverts and under parts mostly white; side of the head and neck with a broad stripe of 
rich chestnut, generally meeting on the jugulam; breast otherwise with ashy-gray ; 
young lacking the chestnut. Length, about? inches; wing, 44; tail, 2; bill, tarsus, and 
middle tee each, under 1, black. 
Habitat, Northern Hemisphere, penetrating to very high latitudes to breed, migratory 
sometimes into the tropics in Winter. Generally distributed, but more particularly 
maritime. 
Rare spring and fall migrant. Dr Kirtland, quoted on page 217, notes 
the capture of a pair in winter plumage on Lake Erie. Mr. Winslow 
and others have since taken it on the lake shore. Dr. Jasper took a pair 
in winter plumage on the Scioto River, in the immediate vicinity of 
this city, a few years since, one of which is now in my collection, the other 
in that of Mr. Oliver Davie. | 
The eggs are described as having a ground-color of various shades of 
brown or olive, spotted with darker-brown. They measure about 1.20 
by .80. 
Genus PHALAROPUS, Brisson. 
Membranes scalloped, bill comparatively stout, fattened, with lancet shaped tip. 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (L.) Bp. 
died Phalarope. 
Phalaropus fulicarius, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Ren, for 1860, 1€61, 380 (probable) ; addenda, 
480; Reprint, 10.—Couxs, Birds of N. W., 1874, 472.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 
1877, 14; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188; Reprint, 22. 
Lobipes (error) fulicarius, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 
672; Reprint, 12. 
Tringa fulicaria, LINN US, Syst. Nat., i, 1777, 249. 
Phalaropus fulicarius, BONAPARTE, Journ. Philad. Acad., iv, 1825, 232. 
Adult with the under parts purplish-chestnut of variable intensity, white in the 
young; above variegated with blackish and tawny. Length, 7-8 inches ; wing, 5; tail, 
225 bill, 1, yellowish, black-tipped; tarsus, 3, greenish, 
Habitat, essentially the same as that of L. hyperboreus. 
Rare migrant. The Red Phalarope was named as an Ohio bird by my- 
self in 1861, on the authority of Mr. R. K. Winslow, of Cleveland, who 
informed me that two or three specimens had been taken on Lake Hrie. 
Although Mr. Langdon names it in his Catalogue, he omits it from his 
later List, doubtless for want of positive identification. It is named by 
Mr. Ridgway as a bird of Illinois, and Mr. Nelson gives it as an occasional 
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