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with a band of reddish yellow, broadest on the forehead. Ear- 

 coverts browny black, down on throat grey inclining to reddish. 

 Dorsal plumes and secondaries fringed with a deep rusty red, the 

 down attached being black tipped with rusty. On the belly, white 

 feathers protrude from between the tips of thegreyish down. Rump 

 brown washed with reddish, feet yellowy green. — The stomachs 

 contained Hyphydri and other aquatic insects. 



Young ht autumn dress (Varanger Aug. 1866), Culmen 22mm, 

 tarsus 19 to 31, tail 45, wing 103mm. Crown of the head and 

 nape brownish black. A band of the same colour stretches from 

 the ear-coverts to a short distance beyond the eye, touching it on 

 the under lid. Other parts of the head, (the front and a broadish 

 well defined eyebrow), the neck and the gorge, white. Sides of 

 neck and breast pale greyish brown. Upper dorsal plumes, scapulars, 

 and secondaries black, deeply margined with rusty yellow. As in the 

 old birds in summer plumage, the primaries are tipped with white, 

 whereby a transverse bar appears upon the closed wings. Hinder 

 part of back and rump black, the median tail-feathers being "nar- 

 rowly fringed with rusty yellow. Feet, when dry, greyish green. 



Two individuals (shot by Professor Esmark on the shore of 

 the Christianiafjord, in the month of October), in the dress des- 

 cribed above, are preserved in the University Museum. 

 Ph alar op us fulicarius, Lin. 



Visits sparingly, and without breeding, the shores of Scandi- 

 navia, in the seasons of migration and during the winter. In East 

 Finmark, it has been observed in summer plumage at the end of 

 August, in winter dress in October (Smf.). 



Like the foregoing species, this bird winters in the southern 

 fjords. In the month of December, 1864, a pair were shot among 

 the islands in the bay of Christiania, and several other specimens 

 in winter dress, from Norway, are preserved in the University 

 Museum. 



Male and female in tvinter dress (Christianiafjord, December 

 1864). Front and sides of head white, occiput and nape down be- 

 tween the scapulars black; on the latter part, the black extends on 



