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Female. Tringa fulicaria. Linn. Syst. i. 249. 10, 

 Faun. Groenl. no. 76. Gmel. Syst. i. 676. 6. 



Phalaropus rufescens. Briss. vi. 20. 4. /c/. 8vo. 

 ii. 2,65. 



Le Phalarope rouge. Buff. viii. 225. 



Red Coot-footed Tringa. Ediv. t. 142. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. Latli. Ind. Orn. v. 2. 775. 

 T. IV. Simmons' s MSS. 



This bird is 7 inches in length. Bill f inch, black. Eye- 

 lids white. Tarsi black, compressed. Toes united as far 

 as the first, second, and third phalanx of the inner, middle, 

 and outermost toes respectively ; the unconnected part of 

 the toes webbed j margins of the web scalloped and pec- 

 tinated. Claws black. The female differs from the male 

 in havino- the head of a dusky black, and the throat of a 

 white colour ; also on the fore part a bright ferruginous 

 spot, extending upwards on each side towards the head, 

 but which is prevented from encircling the neck by a very 

 narrow streak of a dark cinereous colour. This is con- 

 tinued from the head to the back. The dusky streaks on 

 the back are fewer and paler. The cinereous colour is every 

 where much darker than that of the male. 



This species was procured In July 1 803, at the edges of the 

 fresh-water lochs in the Islands of Sunda and N. Ro- 

 naldsha. 



Six females and two males were dissected, and remains 

 of fresh-water insects were found in their stomachs. From 

 the small size of the ovaria, and the leagth and thickness of 

 the oviduct, it was concluded that the eggs had been lately 

 laid. It was sufficiently evident from dissection that the 



