PHALAROPE. 7 



Tringa' rufa, Red Coot-footed Tringa, Bartr. Trav. 292. Edw. pi. 142. 

 Red Phalarope (female), Gen. Syn. v. p. 271. Br. Misc. i. 1. 10. 



SIZE of the former. Bill the same; head, throat, hind part of 

 the neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts black, margined 

 with rufous; over the eye a pale rufous streak ; rump white, spotted 

 with dusky; beneath, from the throat, dusky red, with a mixture of 

 white ; wings and tail as before. 



The above was killed on the 10th of June, out of a flock of four, 

 on the west Coast of Greenland, in lat. 68° ; they were swimming 

 in the sea, amongst icebergs, three or four miles from shore. This 

 appears to be in the summer plumage, at which time it is probably 

 in its most perfect state : this and the last appear to be related. 



5— PLAIN PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus glacialis, Ind. Orn. ii. 776. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 536. 



Tringa glacialis, Gm. Lin. i. 675. 



Plain Phalarope, Gen. Syn. v. 273. Arct. Zool.W. No. 415. 



BILL black, slender, dilated at the end ; crown dusky and dull 

 yellow ; across each eye a black line ; cheeks, and neck before, clay- 

 colour; breast and belly white; back and tertials dusky, edged with 

 dull yellow; wing coverts, primaries, and tail cinereous; the last 

 edged like the tertials; legs yellowish; the toes bordered with a 

 plain, or unscolloped membrane. 



This was taken in the Frozen Sea, in lat. 69%° long. 19K° and 

 supposed to be in incomplete plumage. In Capt. Sabine's Memoir, 

 it is set down as belonging to his Flat-billed Species, in change of 

 feather; on which we have only to observe, that if birds, in such a 

 dress, should be found hereafter, and the whole of them wanting the 

 serratures on the lobated toes, it is possible that the bird here described 

 may prove distinct : but Colonel Montagu mentions the probability 



