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Subfamily PHALAROPODINÆ.

Small sandpipers with the toes lobed, and posterior side of tarsus serrated.

Genus LOBIPES Cuvier, 1817.13

Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not widened toward tip; nostrils separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth of upper mandible at base.

125. LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnæus).

NORTHERN PHALAROPE.

 Tringa lobata Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758); ed. 12 (1766), 1, 149.

 Phalaropus lobatus Ridgway, Man. North Am. Bds. (1887), 144.

 Phalaropus hyperboreus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 698; Hand-List (1899), 1, 167; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 70.

Basilan Straits (Mearns). Arctic regions; in winter to southern oceans.

“Adult female in summer.—Above dark plumbeous, the back striped with ochraceous or buff; wings dusky, the greater coverts broadly tipped with white; lower parts white; chest and sides of neck rufous.

“Adult male in summer.—Similar to the female, but colors duller, the rufous almost confined to sides of neck, and less distinct, the chest chiefly mixed with white and grayish.

“Winter plumage.—Forehead, superciliary stripe, sides of head and neck, with lower parts generally, pure white; top of head grayish, the feathers with dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders; a blackish spot in front of eye, and side of head, from beneath eye, across ear-coverts mixed dusky and grayish white; upper parts chiefly grayish; sides of chest washed or clouded with grayish.

“Young.—Top of head dusky, with or without streaks; back and scapulars blackish, distinctly bordered with buff or ochraceous; middle wing-coverts bordered with buff or whitish; forehead, supra-auricular stripe, lores, and lower parts white, the chest and sides of breast sometimes suffused with dull brownish; ear-coverts dusky.

“Downy young.—Above bright tawny, the rump with three parallel stripes of black, inclosing two of paler fulvous than the ground-color; a triangular patch of brown on crown, bounded irregularly with blackish; a black line over ears; throat and rest of head pale tawny; rest of lower parts white, becoming grayish posteriorly.

“Length, 178 to 203; wing, 102 to 113; culmen, 20 to 23; tarsus, 19 to 20; middle toe, 16 to 19.” (Ridgway.)