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THE GREY PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus Iobatus 9 LATHAM. 

 PLATE XIX. 



Phalaropus lobatus, Lath. Ind. P. platyrhynchus, Temm. 

 Grey and Red-coat-footed Tringa, Edw. (wint. and sum. 

 plum.) Grey Phalarope of modern British authors. 



SPECIMENS of the Grey Phalarope are now obtained 

 in various localities, almost every autumn and win- 

 ter, so that, although they cannot he accounted of 

 frequent occurrence, they are not considered so 

 valuable to collectors as some of the Tringoe we 

 have already had occasion to describe. Mr. Yarreli 

 mentions many instances of its occurrence in the 

 south ; and one or two, killed on the eastern shores 

 of the north of England, have been seen by our- 

 selves. In Scotland, specimens are also at times 

 brought in to collectors, and a few have come under 

 our notice freshly killed, both from the Frith of 

 Forth and from the Sol way, all during winter, or 

 when they had attained their complete or nearly 

 complete grey plumage. This, indeed, is the most 

 frequent dress in which they are met with in Bri- 

 tain, a few specimens jeing killed in autumn wlieu 



