AVF.S. 
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Phalaropus hyperboreus. — The Red Phalarofe. 
Plate LXVIII. fig. 10. 
Crown of the head and back gray; wings brown ash-colour; 
scapulars ferruginous, tipped with gray; a black belt extends 
from ophthalmic region along the side of the neck, with a fer¬ 
ruginous patch at its base; breast cream-yellow; chin, throat, 
abdomen, and crissum, white; irides reddish-brown ; bill and 
legs steel-gray. Eight and a half inches long. Inhabits the 
United States. 
Section II.—Bill depressed through its whole extent, and 
compressed at the tip. 
Pldaropus platyrhynchus. — The Gray Phalarope. 
Plate LXIII. fig. 4. 
Ash-coloured above, with a black fillet on the nape, and a 
transverse white band on the wings ; middle of the back brown; 
upper mandible horn-colour, lower one orange at the base; 
a black patch under the eyes ; legs black. Eight inches long. 
Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 4. — PODICEPS.— Latham. 
Generic Character. —Bill of medium size, the length of the 
head, hard, compressed, conical, and pointed; tip of upper man¬ 
dible with a slight slope; nostrils oblong, ovate, lateral, concave, 
situated in the middle of the bill, open in front, closed be¬ 
hind by a membrane, and pervious ; legs placed very far back ; 
tibia partly concealed in the venter; tarsus greatly compressed; 
anterior toes much depressed, flattened at the base, united by a 
membrane ; the hallux short, placed high on the tarsus; toes 
provided with flat, oblique, depressed, nails; wings of medium 
length, first, second, and third quills the longest; destitute of a 
tail. 
Podiceps cristatus .— The Crested Grebe. 
Plate LXIII. fig. 5. 
Back and wings mouse-colour; under parts silvery-white; 
sinciput furnished with a double horizontal black tuft; sides of 
the head and ruff reddish-chestnut, margined with black ; bill 
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