ACTITIS. 25S 



Sub-Family, PHALAROPODIN^. 

 Bill straight, curved at the tip; tarsi short; toes lobed on the sides, 

 united at the base ; hind toe edged with narrow membrane. 



Gen. Phalaropus.— Pms. 



Bill long ; 1st and 2nd quills of wing longest. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, Lin.; Echv.B.p]. 143; P. E. 766; 

 Gould. B. Eur. pi. 336; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 696; 8tr. F. i. 246; ii. 338; 

 V. 290; vii. 487; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., §-c., Sind, p. 221. — Thk 

 Lessee Coot-footed Stint or the Red-necked Phalarope. 



Crown, back of neck and nape dark lead or slaty ; in winter the fore- 

 head is white, tinged with grey ; the streak over the eye, and the crown 

 and nape are blackish grey ; the neck on the sides is fine yellowish 

 red, which in winter wears away into white, with sometimes a tinge 

 of purple ; in front dark grey with a white edging ; chin white ; throat 

 fine yellowish red ; in winter white, with a slight tinge of pink ; 

 breast white with some streaks below on the sides of a pale ash colour, 

 and in winter with a faint blush of purple red ; back dark or blackish 

 lead colour, the feathers with a margin of ash grey and brownish yellow ; 

 greater wing-coverts dark lead colour, tipped with white, forming a 

 distinct bar across the wing in winter ; lesser wing-coverts dark lead 

 colour ; primaries very dark brown, black in winter ; secondaries mar- 

 gined with reddish yellow on the outer web, which in the winter 

 plumage is white ; tail brownish grey, margined with white ; the two 

 middle feathers darkest, nearly black ; under tail-coverts white ; legs 

 and toes dusky greenish grey; claws black; lores dusky greenish. 



Length.— 7-2b, wing 4'25, expanse M'O, tail 2-19, bill at front 0-81. 



Hah, — Kurrachee, Mekran Coast and Persian Gulf, also Afghanistan. 

 On the Continent of Europe it occurs in France, Holland, Germany, 

 Italy and Sweden. 



Sub-Family, TOTANIN^E,— Sand-Pipers. 



Bill grooved as far as, or beyond, the middle, moderately long, the tip 

 hard and pointed; nostrils narrow; hind toe long and slender, barely 

 reaching the ground. 



Gen. Actitis.— IZ?. 



Groove of the bill extending quite to the tip ; 1st quill of wing 

 longest. 



ActitiS glareola, i^m. ; Gould. B. Eur. p. 315,2; Jerd. B' Ind. 

 iii. p. 697; Str. i^'.vii. 488; Murray, Hdhk., Zool, ^x., Sind, p. 221.— 

 The Spotted Sand-Piper. 



Winter Plumage. — Crown of the head, forehead, nape and back of the 

 neck dusky brown, the feathers with narrow white or greyish edgings; 

 a dark streak from the base of the bill to the eye, and a white one 

 above it ; chin and throat white, rather sullied; fore neck and breast the 

 same, bat suffused with ashy brown, darker on the sides, where the 

 feathers are indistinctly dark shafted ; back, -scapulars aud tertiala 



