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hood extends from the beak, over the top of the head 

 towards the nape, the chin and throat are also dusky ; the 

 space between the beak and the eye, a circle round the 

 eye, the upper half of the cheek and the nape are white ; 

 the back of the neck, lower half of the cheek, sides, and 

 front of the neck, breast, belly, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts are uniform red brown ; the back, scapulars, and 

 rump dusky black, with ochre yellow margins to the 

 feathers ; the lesser wing-coverts lead colour edged with 

 white ; greater wing-coverts darker lead colour, more broadly 

 edged with white ; tertials, the same, but edged with reddish 

 yellow ; quills and tail black ; the legs and feet are greenish 

 yellow; claws black; the beak yellow at the base, and black 

 at the tip ; eyes dark chestnut brown. 



The adult in winter plumage has the beak black ; the 

 forehead, top of the head, cheeks, chin, front and sides 

 of the neck, breast, and all the under parts white ; a 

 beautiful pearl grey under the shoulder of the wing, which 

 fades into the white of the breast ; on the sides and 

 upper tail-coverts are a few longitudinal pale cinereous 

 dusky shaft streaks faintly marked ; on the top of the head 

 is a black patch ; the back of the neck, the back, and 

 scapulars are of a clear gull grey, the wing-coverts are 

 greyish black, margined with white : the shoulder of the 

 wing, the quills and tail-feathers are black ; the eye 

 brown ; the legs pale olive coloured, the claws black. 



The legs of the immature birds are grey, with buff- 

 yellow borders to the webs of the toes ; the feathers sur- 

 rounding the beak are tinged with ochre yellow, and the 

 same colour is slightly visible on the cheeks and the upper 

 part of the breast ; the feathers of the back, scapulars, ter- 

 tials and upper tail-coverts are dusky, with pale buff edges. 



The egg figured 211 is that of the Phalarope. 



