Class II. RED PHALAROPE. 125 



and America: if the same as that referred to m 

 the Philosophical Transactions, is also found on 

 the borders of the Caspian sea." J. L. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. Ph. Phalaropus cinereus. Le Pha- 2. Reix. 



cinereus, subtus uropygio larope cendre. Brisson av. 



fasciaque alarum albis, pec- vi. 15. Hist, d'ois. viii, 224. 



tore cinereo, colli lateribus Larus fidipes alter nostras. 



ferrugineis. (Mas.) Lath. Raii Syn. av. 132. 



Jnd. orn. 775. id. Syn. v. Cock coot-footed Tringa(raa/e) 



270. Edw. 143. Red coot-footed 



Mr. Johnson's small cloven- Tringa (female) id. 142. 



footed Gull. TFil. orn. 355. Tringa hyperborea. Gm. Liiu 



Ray's collection of English 675. 



words, &c. p. Q2. Arct. Zool. n. 203. 



JL HIS species was shot on the banks of a fresh Descrxp- 



* TION. 



water pool on the isle of Stronsa, May 1769. 

 It is of the size of the Purre. The bill is an 

 inch long, black, very slender, and strait almost 

 to the end which bends downwards; the crown 

 of the head, the hind part of the neck and the 

 coverts of the wings, are of a deep lead color ; 

 the back and scapulars the same, striped with 

 dirty yellow ; the quil feathers dusky ; the shafts 

 white; across the greater coverts is a stripe of 

 white; the chin and throat white; the under 

 part and sides of the neck bright ferruginous ; 

 the breast dark, cinereous -, the belly white ; the 



