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.)
Suborder PARRÆ.
Family PARRIDÆ.
In general aspect and habits like the rails but distinguishable at
once by the enormously lengthened toes and claws; claw of hind toe
exceeding the very long toe.
Genera.
a1. No frontal shield nor lappet; primaries attenuated at their tips;
center tail-feathers not elongated. ... Hydralector (p. 150)
a2. With a leaf-like frontal lappet; primaries not produced; center
tail-feathers greatly elongated. ... Hydrophasianus (p. 151)
Genus HYDROPHASIANUS Wagler, 1832.
End of first primary produced as a filamentous appendage about 30
mm. in length; second and third also produced but the slender tip
often broken; tip of fourth primary less slender; a sharp horny spur
at bend of wing.