THE GREY PHALAROPE. 



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winter ; lateral upper tail-coverts orange -cinnamon, central 

 pink-buff with broad central streaks of black-brown ; lores and 

 chin sooty-black, feathers with white bases ; sides of neck auburn 

 shading into chestnut -brown ; remaining under-parts chestnut - 

 brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts as winter ; central 

 tail-feathers sepia edged pink -buff, remainder pale sepia or mouse- 

 grey, sometimes with irregular marks of pink-buff or orange - 

 cinnamon towards tip ; wing as winter but innermost secondaries 

 and coverts sepia or black-brown, outer webs with cinnamon-buff 

 or pink-buff borders. Male. — Like female but feathers of crown 

 bordered at sides cinnamon-buff giving a streaked appearance ; 

 feathers of nape dusky-brown, edged pink-buff, those of mantle 

 and scapulars more deeply bordered and tipped pink-buff and 

 cinnamon-buff ; lores dusky, some feathers tipped auburn ; chin 

 dusky-black more or less intermixed white ; white patch round 

 eye much smaller and in some confined to eye -stripe ; remaining 

 under-parts as female but more or less intermixed with white 

 feathers, some suffused chestnut -brown at tip ; tail-feathers as 

 female but outer ones without buff markings. Moult as in 

 female. 



Nestling. — A narrow black-brown line at base of bill ; forehead 

 cinnamon-buff ; crown velvety-black intermixed with cinnamon- 

 buff and bordered on either side by a yellowish-white eye-stripe, 

 down with black-brown tips ; sides of nape cinnamon-buff, down 

 with sooty-black tips ; centre sooty-black, down tipped yellow ; 

 band down centre of back, irregular one along side of rump, patch 



Head of juvenile and foot of the Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). 



across ulnar and irregular patch along femoral tract velvety-black ; 

 patch on side of tibia sooty-black ; rest of upper-parts and sides 

 of body variegated with blackish, cinnamon-buff and buffish-white ; 

 across lores to eye a narrow black-brown line ; blackish patch on 

 ear-coverts ; cheeks, sides of neck, chin and throat and inner 

 side of tibia yellowish-white, down sooty-black at base and tipped 

 same; remaining under-parts greyish-white, down sooty-black at 

 base. 



