268 GREY PHALAROPE. 



the plumage ; above, and behind the eye, is a broad 

 streak of pale sienna-yellow; the throat is pale 

 greyish -black ; the crown running in a point to the 

 occiput, is very deep clove-brown ; the centre of 

 the back, running slightly upon the back of the 

 neck, is deep blackish-brown, each feather broadly 

 edged with sienna-yellow; the tail of a cuneated 

 form, is clove- brown ; the wings of the same tint, 

 darker on the quills, which have strong broad white 

 shafts; the secondaries are broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a conspicuous bar across the wing ; the bill 

 appears to have been yellow, deep brown at the tip, 

 legs and feet of the same colour, probably a slightly 

 duller tint. In another specimen, from the same 

 locality, the lower parts are not nearly so intense or 

 uniform in their tint, and the dark crown has the 

 feathers broadly edged with rufous-orange, almost 

 entirely destroying the dark appearance seen in that 

 part of the other specimen. In the winter state, the 

 plumage has a beautifully chaste appearance ; the 

 forehead, crown of the head (in its other state so 

 dark), the throat, and all the under parts, pure 

 white; the occiput descending for some way down 

 the nape and the auriculars greyish-black ; the back 

 and scapulars chaste bluish-grey, the shafts of the 

 feathers appearing darker, and each being narrowly 

 edged with pale yellowish- white ; the wings as in 

 the summer state, but of a deeper tint, and on the 

 shoulders having the feathers - broadly edged with 

 white. In a specimen killed on the ^Solway in the 

 beginning of winter, the above colours have been 



