92 BRITISH BIRDS. 



entire head as far as the cheeks dull slate-grey ; the chin and throat and a 

 spot above and below the eye are pure white ; round the neck is a broadish 

 chestnut band, which does not quite meet on the nape ; the dull slate-grey 

 of the head extends to the nape and round the lower neck beneath the 

 chestnut band^ leaving the rest of the underpays pure white, with a few 

 grey markings on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; the rest of the upper 

 parts are dull slate-grey, shading into brown on the wings and tail-feathers, 

 marked Avith chestnut on the scapulars, broadly tipped with white on the 

 greater wing-coverts, narrowly tipped with white on the innermost secon- 

 daries, and broadly barred with white on the upper tail-coverts. Bill black ; 

 legs, feet, and claws lead-black ; ii-ides dark brown. The colours of the 

 male are less brilliant than those of the female; the chestnut on the 

 neck and scapulars is much duller in colour^ and the dull slate-grey on the 

 head and back is replaced by brown, which almost approaches black on the 

 centre of the back and scapulars ; there is also a trace of a white eye-stripe 

 over the lores. After the autumn moult the chestnut and grey bands 

 across the neck disappear, as well as the chestnut on the back and sca- 

 pulars ; and all the slate-grey and brown feathers of the upper parts have 

 white edges, which on the head almost obscure the dark bases, except on the 

 upper ear-coverts. Birds of the year differ principally from adults in winter 

 plumage in having the hind head brown and in ha^dng traces of chestnut 

 margins to some of the innermost secondaries. Young in first plumage 

 are suffused with brown on the breast, and have the feathers on the forehead, 

 mantle, scapulars, innermost secondaries, uj)per tail-coverts, and tail dark 

 brown margined with chestnut. Young in down are huffish chestnut on 

 the upper parts and on the throat, mottled with black on the upper parts, 

 and have the underparts below the breast nearly white, and two nearly 

 white stripes down the centre of the back *. 



* Dresser's figures of the Grey- and Eed-uecked Phalaropes " in winter plumage " are 

 not those of adult birds. That of the Grey Phalarope is a bird of the year ; that of the 

 Red-necked Phalarope is a young bird in first plumage, which has moulted into tlie 

 plumage of a bird of the year on the forehead and breast only. 



