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with afh-colour : legs black : toes fcal loped : the margins of the 

 membranes finely ferrated. 



In my collection is a fpecimen, which differs fomewhat. The Variety. 

 whole top of the head, fides, chin, and neck, are white: the hind 

 part of the head and neck dufky : the prime quills plain ; the 

 fecondaries margined with white : the fcalloped membranes yel- 

 lowifh. I fufpect it to be a young bird, not yet come to its full 

 plumage. 



Inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Iceland and Greenland; Place and 

 is feen alfo in England, but rarely. Frequent throughout Sibiria, 

 in the neighbourhood of the lakes and rivers, efpecially in au- 

 tumn. Alfo met with among the ice between Afia and America. 

 If the fame with that in the Philofophical TranfaSiions, it frequents 

 the fait marfhes, and flies in flocks about the borders of the 

 Cafpian Sea. 



Plain Phalarope, ArB. Z00L N° 415. 



PLAIN PH. 

 "DILL black, (lender, dilated at the end: crown dufky^nd d ESCR i F tion. 



dull yellow : acrofs each eye aWack line: cheeks and fore 

 part of the neck clay-colour : breaft and belly white : back and 

 tertials dufky, edged with dull yellow : wing coverts, primaries, 

 and tail, cinereous ; the laft edged like the tertials : legs yellovv- 

 ifh : toes bordered with a plain or unfcalloped membrane. 



Taken in the Frozen Sea i lat. 69!, long. 191 \. Place. 



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