494 GREY AND RED PHALAROP^E. 



SECT. II. Pinnated Feet, 

 XLIIL PHALAROPE. Gen. Birds, LXXVI, 



412. Grey. Br.Zaol.n. N» ziS. — Ednxi. 308.' — Latham, ill. 



Tringa lobata, Faun. Suec. N° 179. — Midler, N" ig;. — Brunnich, N" I/t. 

 • LePhalarope a feflons denteles,- De BiiffoK, viii. 226. — PL Enl. 766.— Lev. Mus. 



T^H. With a black bill, flatted and dilated near the extremity : eyes 

 ^ placed far back : white forehead : crown duflcy : upper part of 

 the neck light grey : back, rump, and fcapulars, deep dove-coloKj, 

 marked with duflcy fpots : edges of the fcapulars yellow : coverts and 

 primaries dufky ; thefirft edged with white: breaft and belly white: 

 tail duflcy, edged with afh-color : legs black : toes fcoHoped j the 

 margins of the membranes finely ferrared. Size of a Purre. 

 ^''*'^^* Inhabits Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland : in the laft, lives on 



the frozen fide, near the great lakes : quits the country before win- 

 ter : is feen on the full feas in Jpril and September, ii> the courfe of 

 its migration. Swims flowly : cannot dive. Twitters like a Swallow. 

 The feathers being very foft, the Greenlanders-ak it to wipe their 

 rheumy eyes. Is not found in RuJJia, but is frequent in all Sibiria, 

 about the lakes and rivers., efpccially in autumn ; probably in its 

 migration from the ArSlic flats : it was alfo met with among the ice^ 

 between AJta and America. 



413. "Rid. Br.Zool. ii. N° 219. — £<fw. 142, 143. — Latham^ iii. 



Tringa fulicaria, Faun. Suec. N° i-jg.—^Brutinich, N° 172.— M«//«r, N° i960 



—Faun. Groenl. N* 76. 

 Le Phalarope rouge, De Buffan, viii. 225. 



■pH. With bill in form of thelafl: : crown, hind part of the neck, and 



upper part of the breaft, of a duflcy afli-color : fides of the neck 



ferruginous : throat, belly, and vent, white : wings black : greater 



7 coverts 



