

Ciass II. RED PHALAROPE. 
and America: if the same as that referred to in 
the Philosophical Transactions, is also found on 
the borders of the Caspian sea.” J. L. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus. Ph. Phalaropus cinereus. Le Pha- 
subtus uropygio larope cendré. Brisson av. 
vi. 15. Hist. dots. viii. 224. 
Larus fidipes alter nostras. 
Rau Syn. av. 132. 
Cock coot-footed Tringa (male) 
Edw. 143. Red coot-footed 
cinereus, 
~ fasciaque alarum albis, pec- 
tore cinereo, colli lateribus 
ferrugineis. (Mas.) Lath. 
Ind. orn. 775. id. Syn. v. 
270. 
Mr. Johnson's small cloven- 
footed Gull. Wal. orn. 355. 
Ray’s collection of English 
words, &c. p. 92. 
Tringa (female) id. 142. 
Tringa hyperborea. Gm. Lin. 
675. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 203. 
Tus species was shot on the banks of a fresh 
water pool on the isle of Stronsa, May 1769. 
It is of the size of the Purre. The bill is an 
inch long, black, very slender, and strait almost 
to the end which bends downwards; the crown 
of the head, the hind part of the neck and the 
coverts of the wings, are of a deep lead color; 
the back and scapulars the same, striped with 
dirty yellow ; the quil feathers dusky ; the shafts 
white; across the greater coverts is a stripe of 
white; the chin and throat white; the under 
part and sides of the neck bright ferruginous ; 
the breast dark, cinereous; the belly white; the 
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