. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 2l8 BIRDS OF AMERICA NORTHERN PHALAROPE Lobipes lobatus (Liniuctis) A. O. U. Number 22J See Color Plate 29 Other Names.— Sea Goose ; Mackerel Goose ; Web- footed Peep; Bank-bird; White Bank-bird; Sea Snipe; Whale-bird; Hyperborean Phalarope; Red-necked Phalarope. General Description.— Length, 7 inches. Color above, ashy-gray; hill very slender, cylindrical, and sharp (needle-like) ; front toes with lobed or scalloped webs. Color.— .Adult in Summer: Forehead, throat, breast, and lou'cr f'lirts. pure white: crown, sides of head, back of neck, up
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 2l8 BIRDS OF AMERICA NORTHERN PHALAROPE Lobipes lobatus (Liniuctis) A. O. U. Number 22J See Color Plate 29 Other Names.— Sea Goose ; Mackerel Goose ; Web- footed Peep; Bank-bird; White Bank-bird; Sea Snipe; Whale-bird; Hyperborean Phalarope; Red-necked Phalarope. General Description.— Length, 7 inches. Color above, ashy-gray; hill very slender, cylindrical, and sharp (needle-like) ; front toes with lobed or scalloped webs. Color.— .Adult in Summer: Forehead, throat, breast, and lou'cr f'lirts. pure white: crown, sides of head, back of neck, upper back, ashy-gray; forehead and front part of crown, mottled with ashy; lores, dusky; n broad area of rufous extending from nape doii'nzi'ard across upper breast, interrupted on upper breast ti'ith dusky streaks; sides of breast much mottled with ashy-gray and white; flanks and sides marked with arrowhead-shaped dusky s[iots; shoulders, rufous- brown, each feather with blackish center and white tipped; wing-coverts and primaries, dusky, the greater coverts with rear portion white; a white semi-circle above and another below eye; bill, black; iris, brown; feet, dusky gray. Adult Female in Summer: Head from chin, back of neck, shoulders, and back, plain grayish-ash; throat and lower side of head, white, bor- dered behind and below with a large patch of rich tawny, this color including upper breast; under parts, white, broken on side of breast, sides, and flanks, with ashy-gray; a broad J'-shaped stripe of yelloivish-brozi'n on- back; tivo narrozv ones of same color on shoulders: wing-coverts and primaries, dusky, the greater coverts broadly white on ends, forming a conspicuous bar, a white semi-circle above and another below eye; bill, black; legs and feet, bluish-gray; soles of feet, greenish- yellow ; iris, deep brown. Adults in Winter : Fore- head, broad line oi<er eye running along side of head and meeting zchite of chin, breast, and lozver parts, pure ZK'hite: a b
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