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shewed great anxiety for the safety of their eggs, limping 

 before us, or running with extended wings, and emitting a 

 feeble melancholy note as if about to expire. When we 

 approached them they resumed all their natural alacrity, 

 piped in their usual manner, flew ofF, and alighted on the 

 water. Captain Emery and myself followed some nearly an 

 hour, assisted by a pointer dog-, in the hope of tiring them 

 out ; but they seemed to laugh at our efforts, and when 

 Dash was quite close to them, they would suddenly fly off in 

 another direction, and with great swiftness, always leading 

 us farther from their nests. The young leave the nest 

 shortly after they are hatched, and run after their parents 

 over the moss, and along the edges of the small ponds ; 

 but I saw none on the water that were not fully fledged. 

 Both young and old had departed by the beginning of 

 August. 



" I have never procured this species in any part of the 

 interior, although I have procured the Red Phalarope and 

 Wilson's Phalarope in many parts to the west of the 

 Alleghany Mountains, at a distance of more than a thousand 

 miles from the sea-coast." 



Young. — The young, when its plumage is completed, 

 differs in several respects from the adult, although coloured 

 in the same manner. The upper part of the head, loral 

 spaces, a band under the eyes, and the hind-neck are dark 

 brown, streaked with dull light yellowish-brown ; on the 

 forehead some of the feathers are nearly white, and the 

 upper eyelid is of that colour. On each side of the neck 

 behind is a broad longitudinal band of light red, streaked 

 Avith dusky. The upper parts of the body are greyish- 

 black; the feathers of the fore part of the back and the 

 scapulars margined with pale yellowish-red ; the wings as in 

 the adult, but with the white band narrower ; the tail dull 

 ash-grey, with the two middle feathers darker. The throat 

 and lower part of the cheeks are white ; the fore-neck, with 

 a portion of the breast and the sides, dark grey, the feathers 

 margined with white, the rest of the lower parts white. 

 The bill is black ; the feet greenish-grey, part of the webs 



