(WILSON'S PHALAROPE.)
+Phalaropus wilsoni+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 144; _Durnford,
Ibis_, 1877, p. 42 (Chupat). +Steganopus wilsoni+, _Baird, Brew.,
et Ridgw. Water-B. N. A._ i. p. 335.
_Description._--Above cinereous; head above and stripe down the neck
clear greyish white; sides of head and neck black; middle of back
grey, varied with dark maroon; rump and body beneath white; neck
beneath stained with rufous; bill and feet black: whole length 8·5
inches, wing 5·5, tail 2·5. _Female_ similar, but rather brighter.
_Winter plumage_: above dark grey, beneath white.
[Illustration: WILSON'S PHALAROPE. (Seebohm's 'Plovers,' p. 342.)]
_Hab._ America, descending southwards during migration to Patagonia.
Wilson's Phalarope is a North-American species; which breeds in the
north-west of that continent, and descends as far south as Chili and
Patagonia during migration.
Durnford in 1876 met with this species in the Chupat Valley, "in the
still pools formed by the eddies in the river and in the adjacent
stagnant ditches." It was "usually seen in pairs." Leybold's collector
obtained specimens of it near Mendoza.