GREY PHALAROPE. 439 
older ones have still shown traces* of the rich bay tints 
cf their summer plumage, which contrast so strangely 
with the delicate grey and white of their winter dress. 
In this species, as with the dotterel (Charadrius mori- 
nellus), the female is both larger in size and brighter in 
the colours of its nuptial dress than the male; and a 
still greater anomaly is pointed out in the following 
passage from Gould’s “ Birds of Great Britain,” “I am 
informed by Professor Steenstrup, of Copenhagen, that 
the duty of incubation appears to be performed by the 
male only—a circumstance which appears to be confirmed 
by the bare state in which the breasts of specimens of that 
sex are often found.” Mr. Harting, who has recently had 
an opportunity of observing the habits of this graceful 
little bird, remarks (“ Zoologist,” 1870, p. 1973) that a 
specimen which he afterwards secured for his collec- 
tion, when “swimming round and about, now and then 
pecking at some water-weed, seemed to resemble the 
gallinules; like them nodding the head at every stroke 
of the foot. When standing on the ground at a little 
distance, it looked not unlike a ringed-plover, but at 
this season of the year it was much whiter.” Its food 
consisted of small flies and beetles, with a slight admix- 
ture of vegetable matter. 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Linneus). 
RED-NECKED PHALAROPH. 
This species, which is readily distinguished from that 
last described by its smaller size, and longer and more 
* See some remarks on the autumnal change of plumage in 
the grey phalarope, by Mr. M. A. Matthew, in the “ Zoologist ” 
for 1865 (p. 500). Mr. Blake Knox, also (“ Zoologist,” 1867, p. 688) 
