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wanderings it is found frequenting the seas and inland 

 waters of all the great Continents of the Globe, and such 

 remote countries as Chile and New Zealand. 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 



PLUMAGE. Adult female 1 nuptial. Top of head, dark 

 brownish-black ; hind-neck, back, and scapulars, dark 

 brownish-black, but the feathers are distinctly edged with 

 light reddish-brown ; wing-coverts, greyish, with white 

 margins ; primaries and tail, greyish-black ; throat, front of 

 neck, breast, and abdomen, warm chestnut ; cheeks, chiefly 

 white. 



Adult male nuptial. The pattern of the plumage is 

 somewhat similar to that of the female, but the markings 

 are decidedly duller, the top of the head is browner, and the 

 chestnut coloration is mixed with white. 



Adult winter, male and female. Head, cheeks, and 

 throat, chiefly white, with some dark grey feathers on the 

 hind-neck and behind the eye ; rest of neck, throat, breast, 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts, white, save a small 

 patch of light bluish-grey on the sides of the upper breast ; 

 back and scapulars, ' french ' or ' pearl ' grey ; wing-coverts, 

 chiefly greyish-black edged with white, the margins of the 

 greater wing-coverts forming a white alar bar ; primaries 

 and tail, greyish-black. 



Immature, male and female. 2 Somewhat similar to the 

 adult winter plumage, but the white of the breast is suffused 

 in its upper part with yellowish-brown, and the feathers of 

 the back and wings are edged with sandy-buff. 



BEAK. Yellow, with the point black ; straight and 

 slender. 



1 The brighter-coloured plumage of the female Phalaropes is described 

 before that of the male. 



2 Through the kindness of Dr. Scharff, I have been able to examine 

 a series of specimens of the Grey Phalarope taken on the Irish coast, 

 the majority of which were immature birds in the transition autumn 

 to winter plumage. I have in my collection a good specimen (a 

 male), obtained on the North Bull, Dublin Bay, on November 20th, 

 1899. It had assumed much of the winter plumage but some dark feathers 

 were still visible on the back. The bird, which I examined in the flesh 

 and subsequently set up, was in very poor condition, weighing only 7| 

 drachms less than an ounce. As I proceeded to skin it I noted with 

 interest that this species possesses several structural characters corre- 



