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the inner primary-coverts tipped with white, most of the 

 primaries white at the base of the outer web, the secondaries 

 for the most part white, blackish towards the ends of the outer 

 webs, the innermost secondaries dark slate-colour or blackish 

 with sandy-rufous edges, like the back ; centre tail-feathers 

 blackish with sandy margins, the lateral ones dark grey fringed 

 with white, the outermost more broadly edged and having a 

 white shaft ; crown of head sooty-black ; nape and hind-neck 

 also blackish ; forehead, lores, anterior part of face, chin and 

 upper throat dark slate-colour; feathers below the eye, a 

 small streak above the latter, and ear-coverts white ; sides of 

 neck and entire surface of body vinous chestnut ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; quills ashy below, whitish along 

 the inner webs ; bill waxy-yellow with a jet-black tip ; feet dull 

 yellowish. Total length, 7 inches; culmen, i; wing, 5-4; tail, 

 2-6 ; tarsus, 0*85. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage Similar to the female, but 

 not so brightly coloured, the head being sandy-brown, streaked 

 with blackish like the back, and not so sooty-black as in the 

 female bird ; sides of face vinous-chestnut, the base of the 

 cheeks and chin tinged with slaty-grey, with a good deal cf 

 white on the throat and under surface of body, which never 

 seems to get so uniformly vinous-chestnut as in the adult 

 female. Total length, 7-5 inches; culmen, 0*85; wing, 5-05 ; 

 tail, 2-55; tarsus, 2-55. 



Adult Male in Winter Plumage. Bluish-grey with a black patch 

 on the nape ; wings more dusky than in summer, but with the 

 white markings similar, the innermost secondaries bluish-grey 

 like the back and scapulars ; forehead, eyebrow, sides of face 

 and entire under surface of body pure white ; the top of the 

 crown white, slightly mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; 

 feathers in front of the eye and a streak along the upper edge 

 of the ear-coverts black. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults by the sandy-buff 

 margins to the feathers of the upper surface and by the vinous 

 tinge of the throat and fore-neck ; the fore part of the crown 

 is bufTy-white, with a broad horse-shoe mark of black on the 

 hinder crown. 



Eange in Great Britain, The Grey Phnlarope visits us every 



