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tail-coverts very dark purple, nearly black; the 

 wing- coverts dark dusky, slightly glossed with 

 purple, each feather distinctly margined with white ; 

 the greater coverts are also tipped with white, the tips 

 making a white bar across the extended wing ; the 

 primary quills dark dusky, almost black, with white 

 shafts to the feathers, some of those nearest the body 

 very narrowly edged with white; secondaries the 

 same, but distinctly tipped with white ; the tertials 

 are darker, glossed with purple and edged with 

 white ; the two central tail-feathers rather darker 

 than the rest and glossed with purple, the rest rather 

 paler and edged with white ; the chin dirty, white ; 

 the throat and breast the same as the head, but the 

 feathers on the lower part of the breast are darker in 

 colour and margined with white ; the belly wJiite ; 

 the flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts white, 

 spotted" with purplish dusky ; legs and toes dark 

 reddish brown ; claws black. 



The eggs are of " a yellowish grey ground, inter- 

 spersed with small irregular spots of pale hair-brown, 

 crowded at the obtuse end and rare at the other."* 



GREY PHALAROPE, Phalaropus lobatus. The Grey 

 Phalarope occasionally occurs in this county, both 

 on the coast and inland, generally in the autumn. 

 The autumn of 1866 seems to have been peculiarly 

 fertile in these birds, both in this county and 



* Yarrell, vol. iii., p. 95. 



