HVYPERBOREAN PHALAROPE. 473 
with the outer to the second; the edging membrane is broad, 
deeply scalloped, and finely pectinated: the hind toe is very 
short, only the nail touching the ground ; the wings are more 
elongated than in Crymophilus : the tail, on the contrary, is 
shorter, and the general form slender, in which respect, and 
some others also, they bear a resemblance to Totanus. 
The hyberborean lobefoot, as represented in its summer, 
though not its perfect plumage, is seven and a half inches 
long, and fourteen and a quarter in extent. The Dill is less 
than an inch long, black, exceeding slender, and with both 
mandibles remarkably acute, the upper being rather longer 
and.somewhat inflected at tip. The irides are brown. The 
head, neck above, back, and wing-coverts, are very dark grey, 
which comes forward and round on the lower part of the neck, 
thus encircling the white throat: through the eye from the 
bill passes a broad dusky stripe to the hind head ; a rufous 
line arises behind the eye, which dilates into a large patch on 
each side of the neck, the two nearly joining at the back part : 
the sides of the neck and throat are white, the eyelids white ; 
the back and scapulars are of a darker colour than the 
adjoining parts, with large spots of ferruginous on the upper 
part of the back, occupying the outer side of the feathers: the 
rump and upper tail-coverts are banded dusky and white. 
The sides of the breast are dark cinereous, all the remaining 
lower parts are white, the base of the plumage being blackish 
ash, which rather predominates on the flanks, giving to these 
parts a very dark mixed appearance. The wings are four 
and a quarter inches long, and when closed reach precisely to 
the tip of the tail; the under wing-coverts are varied with 
white and blackish ash; the lesser and middle upper-coverts 
are dark blackish grey, the latter with a few white streaks at 
the tip of the outer one: the greater are almost blackish, and 
broadly pure white at the tips, which makes a conspicuous 
band of pure white across the wings: the primaries are 
blackish, slightly edged with paler, and with whitish shafts ; 
the secondaries are white at their base, and on the margin of 
