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Phalaropus williamsii, Simmonds, Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. p. 264 (1807). 



Phalaropus cinereus (Briss.), Meyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 417 (1810). 



Lobipes hyperborea [Linn.), Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 169 (1824). 



Phalaropus ruficollis, ■) 



Phalaropus cinerascens J ^"^^'''' ^""^r. Rosso- Asiat ii. pp. 203, 204 (1826). 



Phalaropus augustirostris, Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. viii. p. 240 (1836). 



Phalaropus lobatus [Linn.), Salvadori, Ucc. d'ltal. ii. p. 210 (1871). 



Lobipes tropicus, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 247. 



Lobipes lobatus {Linn.), Baird, Brewer, £f Ridgway, Water-Blrds N. Amer. i. p. 330 (1884). 



Plates.— Daub. PL Enl. no. 7m ; Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 83 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, Literature. 



vii, pi. 537. 

 Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 89. 

 Eggs.— Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 27. figs. 4, 6. 



The Red-necked Phalarope may be recognized at all ages and seasons by its short bill. Specific 

 less than an inch long, and gradually tampering to the point. characters. 



In breeding-dress it differs principally from the Grey Phalarope in having a white 

 breast and belly, and from Wilson's Phalarope in having a dark slate-grey hind neck. 



The Red-necked Phalarope is a circumpolar bird, breeding principally on the tundras 

 above the hmit of forest-growth as far north as land extends in the eastern hemisphere, 

 and in the western hemisphere up to lat. 73°. It rarely breeds south of the Arctic Circle, 



but above the pine-regions of the Dovrefjeld it breeds as far south as lat. 62°, and it is a 

 summer visitor to the Shetland Islands and the Outer Hebrides. 



On the Pacific coast Middendorff found it breeding on the west shores of the Sea of Geographi 

 Ochotsk as far south as lat,, 55° ; and it is a summer visitor to Greenland, Iceland, and the 



cal distribu- 

 tion. 



