Plate CCLV. Male and Female in summer. Male in winter. In summer, the bill greenish-yellow, black at the point; feet pale green; upper part of head black; loral space and chin blackish-grey; sides of head, and a band round the occiput, white; sides and fore part of neck, breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts deep orange-red; fore part of back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, black, the feathers edged with whitish; wing-coverts deep ash-grey; quills dark greenish-brown, their shafts and basal parts white; the ends of the secondary and primary coverts, and the basal part of the outer webs of the primaries white, forming a band of that colour on the wing; upper tail-coverts orange-red; tail deep grey, darker towards the end, slightly tipped with reddish. Female in summer with the upper part variegated with light red and brownish-black, the central part of each feather being of the latter colour; the upper tail-coverts entirely of the former; tail deep grey, as in the male; lower parts of a less pure red, being paler, and tinged with grey. In winter the bill nearly black, upper and fore part of head, fore part and sides of neck, breast, abdomen, lower and lateral upper tail-coverts, with a band across the wing, white; a brownish-black line from the eye to the occiput, which is of the same colour, as well as in the middle of the hind neck; back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, ash-grey. _Adult_, 7-1/2, 13. Occasionally in flocks in Kentucky, on the Ohio, during autumn often at sea on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Breeds in high northern latitudes, as far as Melville Peninsula. Stragglers at times reach as far south as New Jersey, but the route of this species toward warmer regions, is along the Pacific coast. Red Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ix. p. 75. Phalaropus fulicarius, Bonap. Syn. p. 341. Phalaropus fulicarius, Flat-billed Phalarope, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 407. Red Phalarope, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 236. Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 404. GENUS III. LOBIPES, Cuv. LOBEFOOT.