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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, 



Phalaropus angustirostris, 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, §• Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 330 (1884). 



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Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat ii. pp. 203, 204 (1826). 



Plates.— Daub. PI. Enl. no. 766 ; 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, 

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



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 limit 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, 



Specific 

 characters. 



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 j? lb n u " 



