Plate CCXV. Male and Female.
Bill about the same length as the head, membranes of the toes
scolloped, tail much rounded; upper parts greyish-black, the head
lighter and more tinged with grey, the scapulars and some of the
feathers of the back edged with yellowish-red, of which colour are the
sides of the head and neck; throat and sides of the upper part of the
neck white; wing-coverts and quills brownish-black, tinged with grey,
the shafts of the quills, margins, and tips of secondaries, and a
broad bar on the tip of the secondary coverts white; tail light grey,
the feathers margined with white, the two middle dark brownish-grey,
lateral upper tail-coverts white, barred with dusky; breast and
abdomen white. Young similar, but with the colours paler.
_Male_, 6, 13-1/2; wing 5-3/4.
Rarely seen south of New York. Plentiful at some periods from
Massachusetts to Maine. Abundant in the Bay of Fundy during spring and
autumn. Breeds in Labrador and along all the Arctic coast. Migratory.
Phalaropus hyperboreus. Bonap. Syn. p. 342.
Hyperborean Phalarope, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 239.
Hyperborean Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. iii. p. 118; v. v. p. 595.