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of the smaller wing-coverts being marked with ferruginous ; 
the upper tail-feathers are tinged with reddish at their tips, 
and the under marked with white on their inner webs. ‘The 
feet are dark plumbeous; the claws of a dark horn-colour ; 
the naked part of the tibia is nearly au inch long ; the tarsus 
more than one inch and a quarter, and sharpish ; the middle 
toe without the nail is scarcely one inch, and the remarkably 
long hind toe five-sixteenths without the nail. 
There are fewer variations caused in this phalarope than in 
the others by sex and season: the young, however, is surpris- 
ingly different, for which reason we have figured it also of the 
full size. The bill is like that of the adult, somewhat gaping 
beyond the middle: the face is whitish mixed with dusky, 
and with a dusky stripe from the bill to the eye: the crown, 
neck above, back and wings are dusky brown, darker on the 
middle of the feathers: the rump, upper tail-coverts, and flanks 
are broadly white ; the throat is pure white: the sides of the 
neck are tinged with rusty: the neck beneath and breast are 
white, slightly tinged with reddish-dusky; the belly of a 
purer white, with a little dusky; the vent, and long lower 
tail-coverts, which reach to the tip of the tail, are pure white ; 
the wings are four and three-quarter inches long, the lower 
coverts white; the scapulars blacker, with pale rusty edges: 
the primaries are blackish, with pale brown shafts, of which 
the outer is white. The tail is broad and rounded, the middle 
and outer feathers somewhat longest, all of a pale dusky grey 
with white shafts, the exterior being also white on the best 
part of the inner web. All the tail-feathers are also edged 
with white. The feet are reddish black, the tarsus an inch 
and a quarter long. 
We are acquainted as yet with no peculiarity of this fine 
phalarope, and even the few facts registered concerning it 
have been obscured by the heedlessness of compilers. ‘Though 
it appears to extend its migrations more to the south than its 
congeneric species, it 1s decidedly, like them (notwithstanding 
Temminck’s supposition to the contrary), an arctic bird, and 
