Summer 
plumage. 
164 GRALLATORES. LOBIPES. 
coverts greyish-black, edged with white; the secondary 
coverts having their tips white, and forming a bar 
across the wings. ‘Tertials black, with the outer web 
margined with white. Quills greyish-black, with white 
shafts. Tail grey, finely margined with white. Bill 
blackish-brown. Legs and toes greenish-grey, with the 
tarsus somewhat flattened. In this state of plumage it 
appears to be the Phalaropus glacialis of LatHam, 
(Plain Phalarope of Pennanv’s Arctic Zoology). ‘The 
specimen, as above described, was killed at the Fern 
Islands in the autumn of 1820. 
In summer, the sides and fore part of the neck, the breast 
and under parts, are of an uniform orange-brown. The 
streak above the eye sienna-yellow. Crown of the head, 
nape of the neck, back, and scapulars of a very deep 
olive-brown ; each feather being margined with pale red- 
dish-brown and yellowish-brown, Wing coverts as in 
the winter plumage. 
Genus LOBIPES. LOBEFOOT. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill longer than the head, strait, smooth, slightly depressed 
at the base ; the point subulate, and rather inclined; man- 
dibles grooved. ‘Tongue slender and pointed. Nostrils ba- 
sal, lateral, linear, placed in the commencement of the man- 
dibular furrow, and surrounded by a prominent membra- 
nous rim. 
Wings long, and sharp-pointed ; with the first quill 
longest, and the rest decreasing by regular gradation. 
In the legs, the lower part of the tibiz is naked ; the tar- 
sus slender, and much compressed ; feet four-toed, three be- 
fore and one behind. The middle toe connected with the 
inner one as far as the first, and with the outer ones as far 
