536 Capt. Sabine's Memoir of the Birds of Greenland, ^c. 



12. PiiALAROPUs PLAxrRYNCiios. Flat-billed Phalarope. 



I'halaropus Platyrynchos. Temm. 459. 



Summer. Tringa Fulicaria. Luiti. Syst. Kul. eel. xii. vol. i. G49. Br'un. no. 17'i. 

 Fabr. 111. Miill. no. 196. — Tringa Hyperborea, var. 13. Gmel. i. G'C). — Red Pha- 

 Jarope female. Lath. Si/ii. v. 271- 



Winter. Phalaropus Lobatus. Lalli. hid. Oni. ii. 770. — Tringa Lobata. 

 Gmel. i. G74. Mull. no. 195. — Grey Phalarope. Br. Zool. ii. 123. Lolh. Syn. v. 

 272. Arct. Zool. ii. 494. Mont. Diet. — Grey Phalarope. JVil. Am. Dm. ix. 72. 



Ix Change. Phalaropus Glacialis. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. 776. — Tringa Glacia- 

 lis. Gmel. i. 675. — Plain Phalarope. Lath. Sj/n. v. 273. Arct. Zool. ii. 495. — Grey 

 Phalarope. Mont. App. 



Young. Tringa Lobata, var. /3. Gmel. i.Gj'l. 



However unwilling I feel to admit alterations in names, I am 

 induced to do so in the present instance, and to adopt 'Jem- 

 minck's specific appellation, both as appropriate, and distinct 

 from the confusion in which the various other synonyms which 

 are referred to are involved. The specimen from which the ac- 

 count is taken was killed on the 10th of June, out of a Hock of 

 four, on the west coast of Greenland, in latitude 68". They were 

 swimming in the sea, amongst icebergs three or four miles from 

 the shore. From the considerable difference between the summer 

 and winter plumage of this bird, it is not surprising that so many 

 mistakes have been made. My specimen, which was a male, agrees 

 ■with Temminck's description of the fuU-plumaged bird in sum- 

 mer, except that the whole under parts have a considerable 

 quantity of white mixed Avith the brick red, the white being 

 rather predominant. Before I had an opportunity of consulting 

 the Manuel d'Ornithologie, which confirmed my opinion, I had 

 arrived at the conclusion that the Tringa Fulicaria of Briinnich 

 was this bird: his accurate description of the bill left no doubt in 

 my mind, notwithstanding the difference in the plumage, the 

 consequence of sqason. Fabricius enumerates the Tringa Fulicaria 



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