Capt. Santne’s Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, $c. 535 
coming fainter in North America, from the effect of climate, is 
not correct. Montagu mentions that he has seen several of these 
birds which had been killed in England, in which the collar was 
extinct. 
11. PHaraRoPus Hvrznnonzus. Red Phalarope. 
P. Hyperboreus. Temm. 457. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 775 .—Tringa Hyperborea. Gmel. i. 
675. Mull. no. 196.—Tringa Lobata. Fabr. 109. Faun. Suec.64.—Red Phalarope. 
Lath. Syn. v. 270 & 271: Br. Zool. ü. 125. Arct. Zool. ii. 494. Mont. Dict. 
Supp. & App. Wil. Am. Orn. ix. 75. i 
IMMATURE. Phalaropus Fuscus. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 776.—Tringa Fusca. 
Gmel. i. 675.—Tringa Lobata. Brün. no. 171.—Brown Phalarope. Lath. Syn. v. 
274. Arct. Zool. ii. 495. 
A small flock of these birds were met with on the west coast 
of Greenland, in latitude 71°, in June. A considerable variation 
takes place in the ferruginous colouring of the sides of the neck, 
in some instances the colour meets at the breast, and in others it 
does not; it has been considered that this difference is characteristic 
of the sex, but I am inclined to think that such opinion is errone- 
ous. Some authors have supposed the Tringa Fulicaria of Linneus’s 
Systema Nature and of Brünnich to be the female of this species, 
and have consequently described it as differing extremely: but 
I have had no hesitation ia placing the Tringa Fulicaria as a 
synonym of the true Tringa Lobata (not the T. Lobata of Fabricius, 
which is the present bird). The Phalaropus Fuscus with its syno- 
nyms is considered as the immature bird, on the authority of 
Temminck and the Fauna Suecica ; but great confusion has been 
made in the synonyms referred to by other writers. Iam not ac- 
quainted with the winter plumage of this species; but think it 
probable that the ferruginous tints are peculiar to the summer 
months, as the specimens killed in J une were very irregularly and 
uncertainly marked. | 
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