PHALAROPE. 2?1 



margined with white; bill black, legs and toes 

 greenish-grey " 



In the winter state, the description is taken 

 from a bird killed in Northumberland. " Fore- 

 head white, tinged with cinereous ; crown of the* 

 head, streak behind the eyes, and list down the 

 back of the neck, blackish-grey ; chin, throat, 

 middle of the belly, abdomen, and middle tail- 

 coverts, white, with a slight pinkish tinge. Sides 

 of the neck and breast grey, with a faint blush of 

 purplish-red ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, 

 black, the feathers of the former deeply edged with 

 yellowish -brown, and the greater wing-coverts 

 having their tips white, forming a distinct bar 

 across the wings ; middle feathers of the tail black, 

 margined with yellowish-brown, the rest ash-grey, 

 margined with white."* Our Arctic specimen 

 had the crown, nape, and auriculars, clove-brown, 

 on the first and second mixed with greyish-white 

 and rufous ; the throat, neck, and entire under 

 parts, pure white, on the fore part of the neck, 

 and sides of the breast, having traces of clove- 

 brown and rufous ; behind the auriculars, and 

 running down each side of the neck, the red streak 

 of the complete summer plumage is indicated ; the 

 back and upper parts are umber-brown, mixed 

 with feathers having ochreous edges, and with the 

 dark grey plumage edged with white intermixed ; 

 the quills dark brownish-black. 



* Selby, ii. p. 167-8. 



