46 LOBIPEDID.E. 



On Sir Edward Parry's fii-st and second Arctic voyages, it 

 was observed to be abundant during the summer months on 

 the North Georgian Islands, and found breeding at Iglookik 

 and Melville Island on the third voyage. This species is 

 Avell known to the ornithologists of the United States, where 

 it performs periodical migrations north and south, similar to 

 those observed in Europe ; the Grey Phalarope is also in- 

 cluded in the volume devoted to the Zoology of Captain 

 Beechey's voyage to the Pacific in the Blossom, but the lo- 

 cality in which the bird was obtained is not named. 



According to Pennant, this species is found in the eastern 

 parts of the north of Europe ; is abundant in Siberia, and 

 about the large lakes of Asia to the Caspian Sea. It is occa- 

 sionally found in Holland and Germany ; but is considered a 

 rare bird in France, Switzerland, and Italy. 



The females of this species appear to assume more perfect 

 colours in the breeding-season, and to retain them longer than 

 the males. A female in fine summer plumage has the beak 

 yellow, the point dark brown ; around the base of the beak, 

 and on the top of the head, dark brownish black ; irides dark 

 brown ; around the eye a patch of white ; a narrow stripe 

 down the back of the neck ; all the back and rump nearly 

 black, with pale yellow margins ; lesser wing-coverts lead- 

 grey, edged with white ; greater wing-coverts and secondaries 

 lead-grey, with broad ends of white ; tertials also lead-grey 

 margined with orange-yellow ; quill and tail-feathers almost 

 black ; the front and sides of the neck, the breast, and all 

 the under surface of the body uniform reddish chestnut, or 

 bay ; under surface of tail-feathers ash-grey ; legs, toes, and 

 their lobed membranes yellow ; the claws black. 



When changing in autumn to the plumage of winter, the 

 bay under-colour is lost by degrees ; the first grey feathers 

 that appear arc the scapulars, and from thence tlown the sides 

 of the back ; afterwards those of the interscapular space, and 



