BRITISH BIRDS. 157 



THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



SUMMER PLUMAGK. 



(Phalaropw Hyper bo re its, Lath . Phalaropc 

 hypcrborc, Tern m . ) 



THE author was furnished by Mr. Charles Eother- 

 gill, with two stuffed specimens, male and female, 

 and the eggs of these birds. The above figure was 

 taken from the former. It differs in its plumage 

 from the Red Phalarope; its head, and a narrow 

 stripe on the front, another on the hinder part of 

 the neck, which last spreads over the shoulder, 

 were dark ash; throat white; sides of the neck and 

 breast brilliant bay colour; upper parts of the 

 plumage deep brown, nearly black; under parts 

 white. The bird must have been improperly dried 

 in the stuffing, as its bill and scalloped toes seemed 

 much shrivelled up. The eggs, four in number, 

 like those of others of this genus, were large; they 

 were of a dingy-olive, blotched and spotted with 

 broAvn. 



