756 PHALAROPUS SCOLOPAX 



Phalarope gris, French ; Falaropo rosso, ItaL. ; Plattsclmabliger 

 Wassertreter, German ; Eosse Frangepoot. Dutch ; Thorsham, 

 Icel. ; Bredncebet- Vandtrceder, Dan. ; Bredncebet-Svomsneppe, 

 Norweg. ; Brednabbad-Simsnappa, Swed. ; Leveanokka- Vesipaas- 

 kynen, Finn. ; Plosconosey-plavuntchik, Russ. 



9 ad. (Labrador). Crown, nape, chin, and base of bill black ; upper 

 parts black margined with rusty yellow ; short secondaries margined, and 

 wing-coverts tipped, with white ; upper tail-coverts rusty red marked with 

 blackish brown ; middle tail-feathers blackish, the rest slate-grey ; a white 

 patch on the sides of the head ; neck and under parts rich dark rusty 

 red ; bill flat, yellowish, tipped with black ; legs dull olivaceous ; iris 

 dark brown. Culmen 1*1, wing 5'35, tail 2*8, tarsus 0*85 inch. The 

 male is smaller, duller in colour, and the white patch on the face is almost 

 obsolete. In winter the upper parts are dark French-grey, the head, neck, 

 and under parts white, with a broad blackish streak through and behind 

 the eye. The young bird has the crown, hind neck, back, and scapulars 

 blackish with ochreous margins ; wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts plumbeous bordered with buff and ochreous ; rest of head, neck, 

 and under parts white, the throat and breast tinged with brownish buff. 



Hal. Breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, not in 

 Norway, and the extreme northern portions of the Old and 

 New Worlds, ranging south in winter to the Mediterranean 

 in Europe, to China, has once occurred in India, and is recorded 

 from New Zealand ; on the American continent it occurs as far 

 south as Chili in winter. 



In habits and nidification it closely resembles P. hyperloreus, 

 but its note is said to be more Finch-like, and it usually nests 

 on the small islands off the coast, and not on the main land. 

 Its eggs, 4 in number, also resemble those of P. hyperboreus, but 

 are as a rule somewhat stouter and larger, and some have a 

 paler ground-colour. 



SCOLOPAX, Linn., 1766. 



1050. WOODCOCK. 

 SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA. 



Scolopax rusticida (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766) ; Naum, viii. 

 p. 361, Taf, 211 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 348, pi. xcvi. ; Gould, B. of E. iv. 

 pi. 3L9 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 77 ; Dresser, vii. p. 615, pi, 540 ; 

 Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 347 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 :., p. 475 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 671 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. 0. 

 p. 949 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 283 ; Eidgway, p. 149 ; 

 Saunders, p. 569 ; Lilford, v. p. 58, pis. 23, 24 ; Poynting, p. 103, 

 pi. 23. 



