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the tarsus nine lines and a quarter ; of the naked part of the tibia three 

 lines ; of the tail one inch eleven lines ; from the carpus to the end of the 

 wing four inches two lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male in spring plumage.) Crown of the head, 

 nape, sides of the breast, space between the eye and the bill, as well as a 

 little streak behind the eye, deep ash-gray ; sides and front of the neck 

 bright ferruginous ; throat, middle of the hreast, and all the other under 

 parts, pure white; flanks marked with large ash-coloured spots: back, 

 and scapulars, deep black, the feathers with broad ferruginous edges; 

 wing-coverts black, tipped with white, forming a transverse bar: two 

 middle tail-feathers deep black; the lateral feathers ash-gray bordered 

 by a narrow white band : bill black : irides brown : legs greenish gray. 

 {Adult female.) The ash-gray about the eyes tinged with reddish ; the 

 red on the front of the neck of less extent, and mixed with cinereous ; 

 the spots on the flanks larger and more numerous. (Young of the year.) 

 " Crown of the head, occiput, nape, and a spot behind the eyes, dusky 

 brown; back, scapulars, and two middle tail-feathers, the same, but all 

 the feathers broadly edged with pale red: primaries and wing-coverts 

 dusky, edged and tipped with whitish ; the transverse bar on the wing 

 not so broad as in the adult : forehead, throat, front of the neck, breast, 

 and other under parts, white, passing into pale ash on the sides of the 

 breast and on the flanks ; a faint yellowish tinge on the sides of the neck : 

 inside of the tarsi yellow ; the outer portion, and toes, yellowish green." 

 TEMM. The adult in winter is nearly similar to the young. (Egg.) 

 Olive ground, blotched and streaked all over with dark red-brown : 

 long. diam. one inch two lines ; trans, diam. ten lines. 



Abundant in the Orkneys, Hebrides, and northern parts of Scotland, 

 but very rarely met with in England. Has been shot in Yorkshire, and 

 in Norfolk. Frequents fresh-water lakes, on the banks of which it 

 breeds. Lays three eggs. Food, worms and insects. 



GEN. 81. PHALAROPUS, Briss. 



213. P. lobatus, Flem. (Gray Phalarope.) Gray 

 above ; beneath white (winter) : or brown above, the 

 feathers edged with rufous ; beneath red (summer) : a 

 transverse white bar on the wings. 



P. platyrhinchus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 712. Gray Phala- 

 rope, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 162. pi. 28. Red 

 and Gray Phalaropes, Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. pp. 146, & 147. 



DIMENS. Entire length eight inches six or nine lines. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. (Winter plumage.) Forehead and crown white ; occiput, 

 ear-coverts, and a streak down the nape of the neck, dusky gray ; sides 

 of the breast, back, scapulars, and rump, bluish ash, with the shafts 

 of the feathers dusky ; some of the scapulars tipped with white ; wing- 

 coverts the same, forming a transverse bar on the wing : throat, sides of 

 the neck, middle of the breast, and all the other under parts, pure white : 

 tail dusky gray, the feathers edged with cinereous : bill yellowish red at 

 the base, dusky brown at the tip : irides reddish yellow : legs greenish 

 gray. (Summer plumage.) Forehead, throat, crown, and occiput, deep 

 grayish ash ; region of the eyes, and sides of the occiput, white : sides 

 and fore part of the neck, breast, belly, and abdomen, brick-red : nape, 

 back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts, dusky brown, all the feathers 



