4598 THE ZooLOGIsT—SEPTEMBER, 1875. 
been found breeding in considerable numbers on the Parry Islands; 
but authentic eggs have only recently been made known to natu- 
ralists (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, pp. 56, 546, pl. iv., fig. 2; Zweite 
deutsche Nordpolarfahrt, ii. p.240), and are very rare in collections. 
About the size of a sky lark. May be distinguished from other 
sandpipers by wanting the hind toe, and from the small plovers, 
which have only three toes, by the mottled colouring (gray, rufous 
and black) of its upper plumage. The abundance of this bird 
during many months of the year on the coasts of the British 
Islands, and many other countries both of the Old and New 
World, together with the absolute want of any positive and trust- 
worthy information as to the peculiarities which would seem to 
accompany its habits during the breeding season, and the selection 
of its places of nidification, render these matters deserving of close 
attention. 
*Gray [or Red] Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). “ Kajok?”— 
Said to be the latest summer bird to arrive, to be very rare in the 
south, and not to breed below lat. 68° N., but thence northward to 
be common. Its common English name of “gray” phalarope is 
exceedingly inapplicable when in its summer plumage, for then the 
whole of the lower parts are of a bright orange-red colour, the upper 
parts being diversified with dark brown and tawny-yellow. The 
breeding habits of this bird are little known, and it would seem to 
be often mistaken for the next species, which is far more common, 
and readily distinguished by the white plumage of its lower parts— 
even in summer, and its more slender bill. 
*Rednecked Phalarope (Phalaropus hyperboreus). “ Nellou- 
mirsortok.”—Seems to be the commonest species of phalarope 
throughout the country, and possibly occurs very far to the north- 
ward, though in the Arctic Regions of the Old World it does not 
go anything like so far as the preceding. ‘The difference between 
the two birds has been given above.* 
American Stint (Tringa minutella)—One shot in the spring 
of 1867 on Noursoak Peninsula. 
1 Phalaropus Wilsoni, though never yet met with far to the northward, may be 
not unreasonably expected to occur, if only as a straggler, within the Arctic Circle. 
It can be readily distinguished from either of the foregoing by its longer and more 
slender bill and legs. 
2«T. minuta.” A single specimen brought home by Mr. Edwards (Richardson, 
App. Parry’s Second Voyage, p. 354). The “ T. minuta” of Dr. Walker was T. striata. 
