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tail-coverts very dark purple, nearly black; the 
wing-coverts dark dusky, slightly glossed with 
purple, each feather distinctly margined with white ; 
the greater coverts are also tipped with white, the tips 
making a white bar across the extended wing; the 
primary quills dark dusky, almost black, with white 
shafts to the feathers, some of those nearest the body 
very narrowly edged with white; secondaries the 
same, but distinctly tipped with white; the tertials 
are darker, glossed with purple and edged with 
white; the two central tail-feathers rather darker 
than the rest and glossed with purple, the rest rather 
paler and edged with white; the chin dirty white; 
the throat and breast the same as the head, but the 
feathers on the lower part of the breast are darker in 
colour and margined with white; the belly white; 
the flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts white, 
spotted with purplish dusky; legs and toes dark 
reddish brown; claws black. 
The eggs are of ‘‘a yellowish grey ground, inter- 
spersed with small irregular spots of pale hair-brown, 
crowded at the obtuse end and rare at the other.’* 
Grey Puansrope, Phalaropus lobatus. The Grey 
Phalarope occasionally occurs in this county, both 
on the coast and inland, generally in the autumn. 
The autumn of 1866 seems to have been peculiarly 
fertile in these birds, both in this county and 
« Yarrell, vol. ii., p. 95. 
