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GREY PHALAROPE. Crass II. 
neck of a light grey ; the back and rump a deep 
dove color, marked with dusky spots; the edges 
of the scapulars are dull yellow; the coverts 
dusky ; the lower or larger tipt and edged with 
white; the eight first quil feathers dusky ; the 
shafts white; the lower part of the interior side 
white ; the smaller quil feathers are tipt with 
white ; the wings when closed, reach beyond 
the tail; the feathers on the back are either 
wholly grey or black, edged on each side with 4 
a pale red; the tailis dusky, edged with ash-co- 
lor; the legs are of a lead color; the toes ex- 
tremely singular, being edged with scolloped 
membranes like the coot; four scollops on the 
exterior toe, two on the middle, and the same 
on the interior; each finely serrated on their 
edges. * . 
This bird was shot in Yorkshire, and com- 
municated to us by Mr. Hdwards. 
“The grey phalarope is very rare in Eng- 
land ; 1 have only heard of it twice in this coun- 
try, but in the north of Europe it is not unfre- 
quent, and is seen among the ice between Asia 
* The Editor has a drawing, by the ingenious Mrs. Catherine 
Plymley,. from a specimen shot near Longnor, in Shropshire; 
the legs and bill of which are of a yellowish color, and the whole 
plumage much lighter than that of the bird described in the text, 
Mr. Montagu observed this rare species in Sussex, and has in his 
collection one killed near Alderton, in Wiltshire. En. 
