294 LOBIPES HYPERBOREUS. 



bare part of tibia -f^ ; tarsus |4 ; first toe -^, its claw -jL ; 

 second toe -fe, its claw T ' T ; third toe -f$, its claw -^ ; fourth 

 toe -^j, its claw -f^. 



Adult in Winter. — At this season I have seen only one 

 individual, of which the sex was not determined. The bill 

 black ; the feet dark bluish-grey. The forehead, cheeks, 

 sides and fore part of the neck, breast, abdomen, and lower 

 tail-coverts white ; the sides streaked with grey ; the upper 

 part of the head, a band below the eyes, and a band down 

 the hind-neck blackish-grey; the back greyish-black, the 

 larger feathers and scapulars margined with white; the 

 wings and tail as in summer. 



Habits. — The Red-necked Lobefoot has long been known 

 as an inhabitant of the Orkney Islands. Pennant makes 

 mention of a specimen shot on the island of Stronsay, in 

 May, 1769. Mr. Simmonds, in the Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society, refers to six females and two males, ob- 

 tained, in 1803, in Sanda and North Ronaldsha. Mr. Bullock, 

 in a letter to Montagu, says : — " I found the Red Phalarope 

 common in the marshes of Sanda andWestra in the breeding 

 season, but which it leaves in the autumn. This bird is so 

 extremely tame that I killed nine without moving out of the 

 same spot, being not in the least alarmed at the report of a 

 gun. It lays four eggs of the shape of that of a Snipe, but 

 much less ; of an olive colour, blotched with dusky. It 

 swims with the greatest ease, and when on the water looks 

 like a beautiful miniature of a Duck, carrying its head close 

 to the back, in the manner of a Teal." Mr. Salmon, in the 

 Magazine of Natural History, gives the following account of 

 it, as observed by him in Orkney in 1831 : — " This beautiful 

 little bird appeared to be very tame ; although we shot two 

 pairs, those that were swimming about did not take the least 

 notice of the report of the gun ; and they seemed to be much 

 attached to each other, for when one of them flew to a short 

 distance, the other directly followed ; and while I held a 

 female that was wounded in my hand, its mate came and 

 fluttered before my face. "We were much gratified in watching 



