244 LOBE-FOOTED BIRDS. 



broadly, so as to produce a conspicuous white band across the wing. 

 Lateral tail featliers dusky-ash, their shafts and edges, several bars 

 on the lateral tail coverts, shafts of the primaries, chin, throat, and 

 the rest of the under plumage pure white, blotched with ash beneath 

 the wings. Tail graduated. Bill black. Legs and feet blackish- 

 green ; nails very short, rather flat and blunt, the deeply scalloped 

 edging membranes, elegantly pectinated. Iris brown. 



The young before the moult : with the summit of the head, liind 

 head, nape, and a patch beliind the eyes, deep brownish-black. Back, 

 scapulars, and the two middle tail feathers of the same dark color, 

 and broadly bordered with wax-yellow or pale rufous. Front, throat, 

 fore part of the neck, breast, and the other lower parts white, but 

 with pale cinereous shades upon the sides of the breast and flanks. 

 A slight sliade of j'ellowish or brownish upon the sides of the neck. 

 Legs and feet dusky wax-yellow. In the young of this age, the 

 scapulars do not reach the tip of the 4th quill ; and the tail extends 

 beyond the upper unbarred coverts more than | of an inch, and is 

 also somewhat acute. — Phalarojnis fuscus, Lath. Ind. ii. p. 776. sp. 

 4. Coot-footed Tringa, Edwards, Glean, pi. 40. Le Phalarope Brun, 

 Briss. Orn. vi. p. 18. 



Winter plumage ; In a young specimen obtained in this vicinity, 

 on the 20th of August, the black featliers of the back and scapulars, 

 are moulting into ash-grey, with white borders. 



Subgenus. — Holopodius. (Bonap.) 



The BILL long, very slender, flexible, cylindrical, and of equal 

 breadth throughout, subulate, the point sharp, narrow, and slightly 

 curved. Nostrils basal, long and linear, the grooves nearly 

 obsolete. Tongue filiform, acute. Tarsi rather long, and somewhat 

 stout, compressed and two edged ; toes elongated ; the outer con- 

 nected as far as the first joint to the middle one ; the inner almost 

 divided : edging membrane narrow, and almost wholly entire : hind 

 toe long, resting on the ground. Wings long : tail rather short. 

 The general form slender. 



These birds have a considerable resemblance to the Tatlers (Tota- 

 nus ;) but the dense plumage with which they are clad, at once dis- 

 tinguishes them, and indicates their residence in hyperboreal regions. 



