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of the toes having been so much contracted in drying, at to make 

 the matter undetermined, though he gives his opinion of the bird 

 being only the young of the Grey Species. 



6.— FERRUGINOUS PHALAROPE. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill nearly one inch, brown, 

 with a blackish tip, and broader towards that part; plumage above 

 brown, the edges of the feathers ferruginous, appearing in streaks ; 

 behind the eye a patch of white ; chin dusky ; under parts from chin 

 to vent ferruginous, mottled under the wings with dusky ; wings fine 

 ash-colour; shafts of the quills white; ends of the greater wing 

 coverts white, forming an oblique band on the wing; scapulars as 

 the back, and nearly as long as the quills; as are the under tail 

 coverts, in respect to the tail ; middle of the belly whitish ; tail two 

 inches long, rounded, brown ; the wings, when closed, nearly reach 

 to the end of it; legs dnsky, toes furnished- with a finely scolloped, 

 brown membrane ; claws black. 



A fine, and perfect specimen of this was in the collection of Mr. 

 Bullock, shot near London, but the time of the year not ascertained ; 

 nor are we assured that it is distinct as a species ; we have, however, 

 thought right to repeat the various descriptions before detailed in the 

 Synopsis, as well as recorded by other authors, to give the reader a 

 clearer view ; yet we are by no means averse to join in opinion of 

 compressing them into two Species only, according to the sentiments 

 of Col. Montagu and Mr Sabine,* and, indeed, from so few having 

 fallen under our own observation, we do not feel ourselves competent 

 to decide. 



* M. Temminck is of tlie same opinion, see Man. d'Orn. 456. 459. 



