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LORIPEDID.E. 



GRALLATOTtES. 



LOBIPEDID/E. 



THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Phalarnptis ln)perbm-eus. Bed Phalarcype, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 125. 



,, fulicaria, „ „ 



,, fuscus, Red-necked ,, 



Lobipes hyperborens, ,, Coot-foot, 

 ,, hyperborea, ,, Lobe-foot, 



,, hyperboreus, ,, ,, 



Phalaropus ,, 



Mont, App. to Supp. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 157. 

 Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 100. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 166. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 214. 

 Red-necked Phalarope, Goui d, Birds of Europe, pt. iv. 

 Phalarope hyperbor6, Temm, Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii.p. 709. 



The Red-necked Phalarope is at once distinguished 

 from the Grey Phalarope last described, by its smaller size, 

 yet with a longer and more slender beak, and it presents also 

 much less seasonal variation in its plumage. Edwards has 

 also, in this instance, engraved two representations of the bird, 

 plates 46 and 143, from examples, both of which were 

 brought from Hudson's Bay. 



In its habits the Red-necked Phalarope very closely agrees 

 witli the Grey Phalarope, but is comparatively much more 



