. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 248 PHALAEOPODID^, PHALAROPES. GEN. 198, 199, 200. pa- 198. Genus STEGANOPUS VieUlot. )\' Wilson's Phalarojje. Membranes straight-edged; bill very slender, subulate. Length 9-10 ; wing 5 ; tail 2 ; bill, tarsus, and middle toe, each, over 1, black. Adult ashy; upper tail coverts and under parts white; a black stripe from tlie eye down the side
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 248 PHALAEOPODID^, PHALAROPES. GEN. 198, 199, 200. pa- 198. Genus STEGANOPUS VieUlot. )\' Wilson's Phalarojje. Membranes straight-edged; bill very slender, subulate. Length 9-10 ; wing 5 ; tail 2 ; bill, tarsus, and middle toe, each, over 1, black. Adult ashy; upper tail coverts and under parts white; a black stripe from tlie eye down the side of the neck spreading into rich purplish-chestnut, which also vari- egates the back, and shades the throat; young lacking these last colors. N. Am. Wils., ix, 72, pi. 73, f. 3; NuTT., ii, 245; AuD., V, 299, pi. 341; Cass, iu Bd., 705 AVILSONII. 199. Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. JSTortliern Phalarope. Mem- branes scalloped ; bill very slender, subulate. Length about 7 ; wing 4i ; tail 2; bill, tarsus and middle toe, each, under 1, black. Adult dark opaque ash or grayish-black, the back variegated with tawny ; upper tail coverts and under parts mostly white ; side of the head and neck with a broad stripe of rich chestnut, generally meeting on the jugulum; breast otherwise with ashy-gray; young lacking the chestnut. Northern N. Am., U. S. during the migraticm. Bonap., Am. Orn. iv, 82, pi. 25, f. 2 ; Nutt., ii, 239; Aud., v, 295, pi. 340; Cass, in Bd., 706. . Fig. 101., Wilson's Pliahivoiie (head); Nortliern PLalarojie (loot). 200. Genus PHALAROPUS. , I \ Red Phalaro];>e. Membranes scalloped ; bill comparatively stout, flattened, with lancet-shaped tip. Length 7-8; wing 5; tail 2f ; bill 1, yellowish, black-tipped; tarsus f, greenish. Adult with the under parts purplish- chestnut, of variable intensity, white in the young; above variegated with blackish and tawny. Northern N. Am., U. S. during the migrations. Wils., ix, 75, pi. 73, f. 4; Nutt., ii, 23(3; Aud., v, 291, pi.
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