288 PHALAROPUS LOBATUS. 



ground colour is dull greenish-yellow, irregularly blotched 

 and dotted with reddish-brown." Specimens from Parry's 

 second expedition, brought by Mr. Fisher, are an inch and 

 two-eighths long, seven-eighths in breadth, oil-green, clouded 

 over the large half with umber-brown, spotted with the 

 same in the smaller ; they are broadish oval, approaching to 

 pyriform, with the broad end hemispherical, the other rather 

 abruptly rounded. 



