PHALAROPE. !) 



the eyes a narrow line to the side of the neck, where it widens con- 

 siderably, and continues in a broad patch to the back ; this mark is 

 at first black, but half an inch beyond the eye deep chestnut; chin 

 and sides of the head, between the above line, white ; neck dingy 

 white, slightly tinged with chestnut; belly and all beneath white; 

 at the back of the neck, between the two dark markings, a white 

 line; back and scapulars dark ash, with a little mixture of chestnut ; 

 wings dark ash, larger coverts and secondaries slightly edged with 

 white ; the two middle tail feathers ash-colour, the others the same 

 on the outer web ; mottled ash-colour and white on the inner ; upper 

 tail coverts ash-colour, under white; legs black, bare near an inch 

 above the knee ; toes lobed, the outer united to the middle one, at 

 a short distance from the base, claws small, curved, black. 



Inhabits North America. Received in a collection dispatched 

 from Cumberland House, in the spring, 1820. 



** WITH FLAT BILLS. 



3.— GREY PHALAROPE. 



Plialaropus lobatus, Ind. Orn. ii. 776. Amer. Orn. ix. 92. pi. 73. f. 3. 



Tringa lobata, Lin. i. 249. Gm. Lin. i. 674. Muller, No. 195. 



Phalaropus, Bris. vi. p. 12. 7d.8vo.ii. 361. Fn. suec. No. 179. 



Phalaropus platyrhynehos, Tern. Man. 459. Id. Ed. 2d. 712. Parry's App. p. cci. 



Tringa cinerea gutture albo, White-throated Coot-footed Tringa, Bartr.Trav. p. 302. 



Le Phalarope a festons denteles, Buf. viii. 226. 



Grey Coot-footed Tringa, Ediv. pi. 308. Phil. Trans. L. p. 255. pi. 6. 



Grey Phalarope, Gen. Syn. v. 272. Br. Zool. No. 21S. pi. 76. Id.fol. 126. pi. E. 



1. f. 3. Id. 1812. ii. p. 123. pi. 21. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 218. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 



140. Lewin, v. pi. 194. Orn. Diet. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half, extent sixteen ; weight one 

 ounce and three quarters. Bill black, flattened near the point, about 



