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I have a large series of the eggs of this Phalarope in my collection, from the Outer 

 Hebrides, Norway, the Fseroes, and Greenland, which vary considerably both in colour and 

 markings, some having the ground-colour light clay-yellow or dull ochre, whereas others are as 

 dark as brown paper ; and some are covered with spots and small dots all over the surface of the 

 egg, whereas some are only marked here and there with large dark umber-brown or blackish 

 brown blotches, or covered with large blotches, and dotted here and there between these with 

 small dark brown spots. In size they vary from 1-fa by f§ inch to 1^% by f^ and l-^ by f-J. 



The specimens figured are, on one Plate, an adult male, sitting on the water, surrounded by 

 the young in down, an adult female being on a rock close by ; and on another Plate, with 

 Phalarqpus fulicarius in early winter plumage, the present species is figured in the same dress. 

 The specimens figured are those described, and are in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, b, 5 . Greenland (Erichsen). c, $ . Kistrand, Finmark, July 7th, 1874 (Collett). d,pull. Alten, Finmark, 

 July 17th, 1872 (Collett). e, rf. Pavda, Southern Ural, August 13th, 1868 (L. Sabandeff). f. River 

 St. Croix, New Brunswick, 1864 (Boardman). g. Grand Manan, New Brunswick, 1862 (Boardman). 

 h. Duerlas, Guatemala, September 1862 (Salvin). i, pullus. North America (Krider). 



E Mus. Salvin and Godman. 



a, b, c. Orkney Islands, 1855 (Hubbard). d. Kautokeino, Lapland, 1857 (F. Godman). e, $. Labrador 

 (Moschler). /, $ . Anderson River, Arctic America, June 1864 (R. MacFarlane). g. Rupert House, 

 Arctic America (C. Drexler). h. Mexico (Verreaux). i, $ , k, $. Duenas, Guatemala, August 19th, 

 1859 (0. Salvin). 



E Mus. H. B. Tristram. 



a, cJ. North Uist, Scotland, June 27th, 1868 (Elwes). b, ?. Shetland, July 1866 (Saoaby). c, 6 . Orkney, 

 June 10th. d, 5. Guatemala, August 19th, 1859 (Osbert Salvin), 



