282 CHAEADIUID^E. 



have the ferruginous patches divided in front by a dark slaty-grey 

 area. 



Bill blackish ; irides brownish black ; legs and feet lavender- 

 blue (Butler). 



Length 7'5 ; tail 1'85 ; wing 4-25 ; tarsus - 8 ; bill from gape '94. 



Distribution. This Phalarope breeds in the North of Europe, 

 Asia, and America, amongst other places in the Orkneys and 

 Hebrides, and in autumn migrates to the southward. Its principal 

 winter abode in the Eastern Hemisphere is on the coasts of Arabia, 

 Baluchistan, and Sind, where it abounds. It also occurs on the 

 west coast of India and on the east coast as far north as Madras, 

 where, at times, it is not uncommon ; but it has not been observed 

 farther east within Indian or Burmese limits, though it is known 

 to visit Japan, China, and the Malay Archipelago. Inland in India 

 it only occurs when migrating, but it has been several times shot 

 in the Punjab and Eajputana, as far east as the neighbourhood 

 of Delhi, about September and May. 



Jlabits, fyc. On the coasts of Baluchistan and Sind this Phalarope 

 is found in flocks sitting on the sea, often several miles from land. 

 I have seen what is doubtless the same species off Aden, where 

 specimens were obtained by Barnes. When swimming thus 

 Ked-necked Phalaropes are very wary, and do not allow a boat to 

 come near ; whereas on the pools of fresh water occasionally 

 haunted by them on laud they are remarkably tame. 



1481. Phalaropus fulicarius. The Grey Plialarope. 



Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 249 (1766). 



Phalaropus lobatus, Tunst. Orn. Brit. p. 3 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1859, p. 464 ; 



nee Tringa lobata, Linn. 

 Phalaropus fulicarius, Blyth, Cat. p. 271 ; id. J. A. S. B. xxiii, p. 214 ; 



xxviii, p. 417 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 695 ; Hunte, 8. F. vii, p, 487 ; 



id. Cat. no. 889 ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 338. 

 Crymophilua fulicarius, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 693. 



Coloration in winter. Forehead, supercilia, lores, cheeks, sides of 

 neck, and lower parts white ; crown chiefly white, but mixed with 

 blackish ; a blackish streak, including the eye, continued back 

 over the ear-coverts ; nape and hind neck blackish : back, scapulars, 

 and tertiaries ashy grey ; wing-coverts and quills blackish grey, 

 more or less white-edged; greater secondary-coverts broadly tipped 

 with white; bases of later primaries and of secondaries and greater 

 part of inner secondaries white ; middle of rump and upper tail- 

 coverts and all tail-feathers black, with white or buff edges. 



Females in summer have the crown, lores, and nape black ; a 

 large patch on each side of the head, including the orbit and ear- 

 coverts, white ; feathers of back, scapulars, and tertiaries black, 

 with broad buff edges ; lower parts and sides of body dark vinous 

 chestnut; chin dusky grey. In males the crown is like the back, 

 and there is much white on the throat and breast. 



Bill in summer yellowish, black at the tip, in winter dark olive 

 throughout; irides dark brown; legs and ftet dull olive (Dresser) . 



