"Young male.--Resembles the old male almost exactly, but has the throat entirely white, the lower throat and fore neck washed with brown, with some dusky streaks; these streaks on the full-grown male are sometimes black, but the feathers of the back and scapulars have spots or margins of white. "Young female.--Is at first like the young male and has the same yellow-spotted wing-coverts; the hind neck is gray, vermiculated with dusky like the male, and the markings on the throat are similar to those of the latter sex. When the chestnut color is first assumed, it is of a dull tint, and is obscured by dusky margins to the feathers; the chin is white, and the throat and fore neck uniform brown, with which the chestnut feathers are often mingled." (Sharpe.) "Fairly abundant about the rice-fields. Easy to bring down on account of its comparatively slow and heavy flight. Resident in the Philippines. We obtained its nest and eggs in Siquijor." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) Subfamily PHALAROPODINÆ. Small sandpipers with the toes lobed, and posterior side of tarsus serrated. Genus LOBIPES Cuvier, 1817. [16] Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not widened toward tip; nostrils separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth of upper mandible at base. 125. LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnæus). NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 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.