TRINGINJE. LOBIPES. 83 



ed with light red ; wing-coverts and quills greyish-black ; a 

 white band across the wing ; the rump white, streaked with 

 dusky ; the tail deep grey, dusky toward the end ; forehead 

 dusky grey ; sides of head, white ; fore-neck, breast, abdomen, 

 and lower tail coverts, light red. 



Male, 8, ISf, 5, H, H> *> A- 



Extends in summer into the Arctic regions of both Conti- 

 nents, where it breeds. The eggs are ovato-pyriform, four, 

 an inch and two-eighths long, seven-eighths in breadth, oil- 

 green, clouded and spotted with umber-brown. Although it 

 searches the shores of the sea, lakes, and rivers, in the man- 

 ner of a Tringa, it is frequently seen at a great distance from 

 land, walking on masses of floating sea-weeds, or swimming 

 in the open ocean. Its economy in this respect is not more 

 wonderful for a bird of this family than that of the Coot in the 

 family of Gallinules, and more especially of the Dipper in that 

 of Thrushes or Ant-catchers. Its flight is rapid, according to 

 Mr Audubon, like that of Tringa Cinclus ; it runs with ease, 

 and swims with great speed. 



Red Phalarope. Grey Phalarope. Coot-foot. 



Tringa lobata and fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 249. Pha- 

 laropus lobatus and glacialis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 776. 

 Phalaropus platyrhynchus, Temm. Man. d' Ornith. ii. 712. 

 Phalaropus lobatus, Grey Phalarope, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, iv. 



GENUS C. LOBIPES. LOBEFOOT, 



It appears that not more than three species of this genus 

 are known. They are small birds of slender form, with 

 the body somewhat elongated ; the neck rather long and 

 slender ; the head small, compressed, with the forehead ele- 

 vated and rounded. Bill rather longer than the head, 

 straight, or very slightly recurved, very slender, depressed, 

 tapering ; upper mandible with the ridge convex, flattened 

 at the base, the nasal groove extending nearly to the end, 

 the tip slender and pointed ; lower mandible with the angle 

 long and extremely narrow, the sides sloping outwards and 

 grooved for three-fourths, the tip acute. Mouth extremely 

 narrow ; tongue long, extremely slender, horny, trigonal, 

 grooved above, tapering to a fine point ; oesophagus narrow ; 

 proventriculus oblong ; stomach elliptical, with strong late- 



