Class II. GREY PHALAROPE. * IS3 



Sect. II. FIN-FOOTED BIRDS. 



GENUS XIII. PHALAROPE. 



Bill strait and slender. 



Nostrils minute. \ 



Body and legs like the Sandpiper. 



Toes furnished with scalloped membranes. 



Phalaropus lobatus. Ph. cine- Phil. Trans. Vol 50. 255. 1. Grey. 



reo-coerulescens subtus albus, Tah. 6. 



tectricibus alammremigibus Le Phalarope. Brissott av. vi. 



rectricibusque nigricandbusj 12. Hist. d!ois. viii. 226. 



margine cinerascente-albis. TringaLobata. Gm. Lin. 674. 



Lath. Ind. orn. 776. id. Faun. Suec. sp. I'JQ. 



Syn. V. 272. Brunnich, 17I. 



Grey Coot footed Tringa. Br. Zool. 126.- E. 1. 3. Arct. 



Edw. av. 308. Zool. ii. 202. 



TION. 



XhIS is about the size of the Purre, weigh- Descrip- 

 ing one ounce. The bill is black, not quite an 

 inch long, flattened on the top, and channeled 

 on each side, the nostrils placed in the chan- 

 nels; the eyes are situated remarkably high in 

 the head; the forehead white; the crown of the 

 head covered with a patch of a dusky hue, spot- 

 ted with white and a pale reddish brown ; the 

 Test of the head, and whole under part of the 

 neck and body, are white ; the upper part of the 



