PHALAROPIN^E TOTANIN^. 357 



The Sanderling is more or less common along the coast 

 during winter. 



SUB-FAMILY, Phalaropinae. 



Feet with toes bordered by a free membrane cut into lobes as 

 in the Coots ; otherwise much as in Tringa. 



GENUS, Lobipes. 



Bill slender and pointed ; the feet lobed ; otherwise as in 

 Tringa. 



Lobipes hyperboreus, Lin. 



890. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 696 ; Murray's Verte- 

 brate Zoology of Sind, p. 253. 



THE RED-NECKED PHALAEOPE. 



Length, 6'5 ; wing, 4*4 ; tail, 2'25 ; tarsus, 075 ; bill, 075. 



Bill dusky ; irides brown ; feet yellowish-green. 



Forehead white ; crown, occiput, and nape dusky-brown ; 

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

 the feathers broadly edged with whitish ; all the lower parts 

 white, passing into pale-ashy on the sides of the breast and 

 flanks. 



In summer plumage the back and scapulars are deep black, 

 with reddish edges ; the wing-coverts black with a white band 

 and the neck ferruginous. 



The Coot-footed Stint or Red-necked Phalarope occurs in the 

 cold weather in the Kurrachee Harbour and adjacent sea- 

 coast. 



I met with it at Chaman, South Afghanistan, where it must 

 have been migrating. 



SUB-FAMILY, Totaninse. 



Bill moderately long, slender, with the tip hard and pointed, 

 slightly ascending in some ; tarsi slender, rather long ; feet 

 elongate ; outer-toe joined by web to the middle one. 



GENUS, Actitis. 



Bill moderate or rather long, slender, straight, compressed, and 

 acuminate, with the tip hard ; the groove of the bill extending 

 quite .to the tip ; wings moderately long, with first quill longest ; 

 tail slightly lengthened ; tarsus rather short or moderate ; toes, 

 rather long. 



Actitis (Rhyacophilus) glareola, Om. 



891. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 697; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 17 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 429 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 253 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 



