606 



uropygio cinereo : supracaudalibus ferrugineis medialiter nigro notatis : rectricibus centralibus nigri- 

 cantibus, reliquis saturate cinereis, duabus extimis versus apicem rufo notatis : eorpore subtus saturate 

 ferrugineo : subtectricibus alarum albis cinereo notatis : pedibus sordide olivaceis : rostro flavo, ad 

 apicem nigro : iride fusca. 



6 ad. ptil. (est. minor et sordidior : pileo non nigro sed cum nucha et dorso nigricantibus brunnescente ochraceo 

 notatis, macula in capite laterali indistincta, et eorpore subtus pallidiore, abdominis plumis albo mar- 

 ginatis facile a femina distinguendus. 



Ptil. Mem. fronte, gula, collo et eorpore subtus pure albis, pileo nigro plumis albis immixtis : nucba, collo 

 postico et dorso antico nigris vix albido notatis : dorso et uropygio cum scapularibus pallide cserulescenti- 

 cinereis vix nigro notatis : alis ut in ptilosi aestivali sed nigricantibus nee nigricanti-cinereis : macula 

 per et infra oculos producta nigra : rostro olivaceo : pedibus grisescenti-olivaceis. 



Adult Female in breeding-plumage (Labrador). Crown, nape, chin, and all round the base of the bill black, 

 tbis colour being most intense on the crown ; a large white patch covering the sides of the head round 

 the eye and extending backwards to the nape, where it nearly joins; entire underparts and neck all 

 round, except a narrow central black line at the back, rich dark rusty red ; back and scapulars black, 

 the feathers all margined with rusty yellow ; primaries blackish grey on the outer web and on tbe 

 central and terminal portion of the inner web, the outer and basal portion being white ; shafts white ; 

 secondaries dark greyish, margined with white, one or two of the inner short ones nearly pure white ; 

 elongated inner secondaries blackish grey, narrowly edged with white at the tip ; wing-coverts dark 

 grey, the median coverts slightly edged with whitish, and larger wing-coverts broadly terminated with 

 white, forming a broad white bar across the wing ; rump greyish ; upper tail-coverts dark rusty red, 

 marked with dark brown or black along the centre of some of the feathers ; central rectrices blackish, 

 remainder dark slate-grey, the two outer ones on each side marked with dark rufous towards the tip ; 

 under wing-coverts white and grey- varied ; bill flat, in colour yellowish, except at the tip, where it is 

 black; legs dull olive; iris dark brown. Total length about 8 inches, culmen 1 - 1, wing o - 35, tail 2 - 8, 

 tarsus 0"85. 



Adult Male in breeding-plumage (Egedesminde, Greenland) . Differs from the female in being much duller 

 in colour; the crown, nape, and back are black, marked with rusty or yellowish brown, all the feathers 

 being margined with this colour, so as only to allow the black to appear through here and there ; the 

 white patch on the side of the face is almost obsolete, and the underparts are much duller in colour, 

 the feathers on the lower abdomen being edged with white. Culmen - 95, wing 4*75, tail 2 - 4, 

 tarsus 0-82. 



Winter plumage (Pagham, Sussex, October) . Differs from the summer plumage in having the upper parts 

 generally black and grey and the underparts pure white ; forehead, throat, neck, and entire underparts 

 pure white; crown, nape, a narrow line down the back of the neck and the fore part of the back black, 

 slightly marked with whitish, on the crown several pure white feathers ; back, rump, aud scapulars 

 dark French grey, intermixed with a few blackish feathers, one or two of which latter are slightly 

 margined with yellowish brown ; wings as in the summer dress, but much blacker, the grey shade 

 being almost absent; through and behind the eye a broad blackish streak; bill dark olive; legs 

 greyish olive. 



Young. Middendorff says that, irrespective of the form of the bill, the young of the present species may be 

 distinguished from those of Phalaropus hyperboreus in the first-feather plumage by having the feathers 



