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SPECIES 2. PHILaROPUS LOBITUS'Y
BROWN PHALAROPE.2
[Plate LXXIII--Fig. 3.]
Tringa lobata, LIN. Syst. ed. 10, toin. i,p. 148, 5. T. hyperborea,
Id. ed. 12, tonm. i, p. 249, 9.--Tringa lobata, GMEL. Syst. 1, p.
674, 6. T. fusca, Id. p. 675, 33. '. hy~perborea, lI'. iVo. 9.--
Phalaropus cinereus, Biiiss. Orn. vi, p. 1 5. P.fuscus, Id. p. 18.
-Le Phaltrope cendre, BUrr. Ois. VIII, P. 224. P1. Enl. 766.-
Coot-footed Tringa, EDWARDS, pl. 46. Cock Coot-tooted Yrin
ga, Id. pl. 143.-Red Phalarope, PENN. Brit. Zool. JXo. 219.
Brown Phalarope, rdct. Zool. iAo. 414.-Phalctropits hyperbo-
reus, LATH. Ind. Orn. p. 775, 1. P. fuscuis, Id. p. 776. 4. l£ed
lPhalarope, Gen. Synz. III, p. 270, 1. Id. 1. 272, var. .d. Brown
Phalarove, ldl.p. 274, 4.-Red Phalarope, MONTAGU, Orn. Die.
Id. Sup. and Jppendix.-Phatoropus hyperboreus, TEMM. .AIa1.
d'Orn. p, 709.-Le Lobipede a hausse-col, Cuv. Reg. Jn. 1, p.
495.
OF this species only one specimen was ever seen by Wilson,
and that was preserved in Trowbridge's Museum, at Albany,
in the state of New York. On referring to Wilson's Journal,
I found an account of the bird, there called a Triuga, written
with a lead pencil, but so scrawled and obscured, that parts of
the writing were not legible. I wrote to Mr. Trowvbridge, so-
liciting a particular description, but no answer was returned.
However, having had the good fortune, since publishing the
first edition, of examining a fine recent specimen of this rare
bird, I hope I shall be enabled to fix the species by such cha-
racters, as will prevent any ornithologist in future from con-
founding it with the species which follows; two birds which,
* Named in the plate Gray Phalarope,