PHALAROPE, 271 



dufky ftripe: behind each eye is a rufous one, paffing on the fides 

 of the neck, and joining the laft behind : the rump and upper tail 

 coverts are banded dufky and white : all the under parts of the 

 body white, the under wing coverts crofTed with black lines : the 

 upper coverts are afh-colour; the greater incline to brown, and 

 are tipped with white, forming a band on the wings : fcapulars 

 margined with rufous: quills dufky; fome of the fecondaries 

 tipped with white: tail dufky : legs lead-colour. 



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Tringa fulicaria, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 249. 10.— Faun. Groenl. N° 76. 



Le Phalarope roufl'atre, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 20. 4. RED PH. 



rouge, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 225. Female. 



Red Coot-footed Tringa, Ed-ui pi. 142. 



IZE of the laft. Bill the fame : head, throat, hind part of Description. 



the neck and back, fcapulars, and upper tail coverts, black, 

 with rufous margins : over the eyes a pale rufous ftreak : rump 

 white, fpotted with dufky : the under part, from the throat, 

 dufky red : wings and tail as in the laft defcribed. 



Thefe two birds are undoubtedly male and female; and are Place and 

 rare in England ; their having once been fhot in Torkjhire is on 

 record. More common on the continent. Found in Sibiria, and 

 in the neighbourhood of the Co/pan Sea; alfo in Scandinavia. 

 Met with in Hudfon's Bay; and found by our circumnavigators 

 between Afia and America. Come into Greenland in April, and 

 depart in September. Generally found in pairs ; and are obferved 

 while fwimming to be continually dipping their bills in the water 

 after infects; for it cannot dive, nor fwim but very imperfectly. 

 They come into Hudfon's Bay the beginning of June, and lay four 



eggs, 



Manners. 



