49t RE£> PHALAROPE. Class IL 



pulars are dull yellow: the coverts dufky, the low- 

 er or larger tipt and edged with wh ; te : the eight 

 lirfl: quil- feathers dufky ; the ihafts white ♦, the low- 

 er part of the interior fide white : the fmaller quil- 

 feathers are tipt with whioei the wings clofed, 

 reach beyond the tail : the feathers on the back are 

 either wholly grey or black, edged on each fide 

 with a pale red : the tail dufky, edged with afh- 

 color : the legs are of a lead color : the toes ex- 

 tremely fingular, being edged with fcolloped mem- 

 branes iike the coot: four fcollops on the exterior 

 toe, two on the middle, and the fame on the in- 

 terior ; each finely ferrated on their edges. 



This bird was mot in TorkJhire> and communi- 

 cated to us by Mr. Edwards. 



19. Red. Mr. Jobnfonh fmall cloven Larus fidipes alter noilras. 

 footed Gull. WiL orn. 355. Raiijyn. a<v. 132. 

 Ray's colle&ion of Englijb Edav. a<v. 143. 



words, &c. p. 92. Tringa hyperborea. Lin.Jyft. 



249. 



THIS ipecies was (hot on the banks of a frefh 

 water pool on the ifle of Stronfa^ May 1769. 

 It is of the fize of the Purre. The bill is an 

 inch long, black, very (lender, and (trait almoft to 

 the end which bends downwards : the crown of the 

 head, the hind part of the neck and the coverts of 

 £he wings are of a deep lead color -, the back and 



fcapulars 



