PHALABOPUS. 20& 



Suborder GHABABBII. 



Family CHARADRIIDiE. 



Subfamily Phalaeopodin^. 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson, Orn. vi. 1760, p. 12. 

 Type : P. fulicarius Linn. 



Phaldrdpus, from (fiaXdpis = a Coot, ia olasaioal Greek, which ia from 

 0d\apos=having a patch of white (on its forehead) and 7rous=a foot. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. Grey Phalarope. 



Tring-a fulicaria Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 148 : 

 Hudson Baj'. 



Phalaropus fulicarius {Linn.); B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 164; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 565. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 693. 



Fulicarius = like a Coot, fulica, q. v. p. 306. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — An irregular Bird of 

 Passage chiefly in autumn, between August and November, 

 and most frequently met with on the south-east, south, and 

 south-west coasts of England, but occasionally on the east 

 coast of Great Britain, northwards to the Orkney and 

 Shetland Islands and in the Outer and Inner Hebrides. 

 To Ireland it is an irregular visitor in autumn and early 

 winter. Periodically immigrations of greater or lesser 

 magnitude have occurred on the south coast of England, as 

 in the autumns of 1866, 1869, 1886, and 1891, the last 

 spreading to many other parts of the country. 



General Distribution. — The Grey Phalarope breeds on the 

 arctic coasts and islands of the northern Hemisphere, 

 ranging to Iceland in the south and eastwards to Spits- 

 bergen, Novaya Zemlya, north Siberia, and the New Siberia 



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