262 CHARADRIIDAi 
wanderings it is found frequenting the seas and inland 
waters of all the great Continents of the Globe, and such 
remote countries as Chile and New Zealand. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult female! nuptial—Top of head, dark 
brownish-black ; hind-neck, back, and scapulars, dark 
brownish-black, but the feathers are distinctly edged with 
light reddish-brown; wing-coverts, greyish, with white 
margins; primaries and tail, greyish-black ; throat, front of 
neck, breast, and abdomen, warm chestnut; cheeks, chiefly 
white. 
Adult male nuptial.—The pattern of the plumage is 
somewhat similar to that of the female, but the markings 
are decidedly duller, the top of the head is browner, and the 
chestnut coloration is mixed with white. 
Adult winter, male and female.— Head, cheeks, and 
throat, chiefly white, with some dark grey feathers on the 
hind-neck and behind the eye; rest of neck, throat, breast, 
abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts, white, save a small 
patch of light bluish- erey on the sides of the upper breast ; 
back and scapulars, “french ? or ‘pearl’ grey ; wing-coverts, 
chiefly greyish-black edged with white, the margins of the 
re tiee * wing-coverts forming a white alar bar ; primaries 
and tail, greyish-black. 
Immature, male and female.°—Somewhat similar to the 
adult winter plumage, but the white of the breast is suffused 
in its upper part with yellowish-brown, and the feathers of 
the back and wings are edged with sandy-buff. 
BEAK. Yellow, with the point black; straight and 
slender. 
' The brighter-coloured plumage of the female Phalaropes is described 
before that of the male. 
* Through the kindness of Dr. Scharff, I have been able to examine 
a series of specimens of the Grey Phalarope taken on the Irish coast, 
the majority of which were immature birds in the transition autumn 
to winter plumage. I have in my collection a good specimen (a 
male), obtained on the North Bull, Dublin Bay, on’ November 20th, 
1899. It had assumed much of the winter plumage but some dark feathers 
were still visible on the back. The bird, which I examined in the flesh 
and subsequently set up, was in very poor condition, weighing only 7+ 
drachms—less than an ounce. As I proceeded to skin it I noted with 
interest that this species possesses several structural characters corre- 
