642 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PHALAROPUS LOBATUS 



419. Phalaropus lobatus (L.) — THE RED-NECKED 

 PHALAROPE. 



Tringa tobata (evident misprint for lobata, corrected p. 824) Linnseus r 



Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 148 (1758 — ; N. America and Lapland. Restricted 



typical locality : Hudson Bay, from first and only quotation). 



Phalaropus Williamsii Simmonds, Trans. Linnean Soc, London, vin 



p. 264 (1807— Orkney Is.). 



Tringa rubra Anonymous, Arcana, pi. (50) (1811 — In winter near 



Stockport, England). 



Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 315 ; Saunders, p. 567 f 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Fore-head and! 

 crown white, feathers with ash -brown bases often imperfectly 

 concealed ; patch on hinder crown and centre of nape dull blue- 

 grey with a brownish tinge ; sides of nape, back and rump white ; 

 lateral upper tail-coverts white streaked or shaded grey ; remaining 

 upper -parts dull blue -grey, feathers more or less broadly margined 

 or tipped white, lower scapulars sepia with a grey bloom and 

 narrowly edged white ; eye almost entirely surrounded by dusky- 

 black patch continued across ear-coverts ; small white line under 

 eye ; sides of breast as mantle ; remaining under -parts white,, 

 feathers of sides of belly and flanks streaked centrally or shaded 

 pale grey ; central tail-feathers sepia with a grey bloom and 

 narrowly edged white, rest mouse -grey narrowly edged white,, 

 outer ones more or less white on inner webs ; primaries black-brown 

 or hair-brown, paler on inner webs, inner ones more or less white 

 towards base ; secondaries hair-brown or sepia, tipped white 

 and more or less white at base of inner webs, two next innermost 

 with outer webs more or less white, innermost and coverts as lower 

 scapulars ; primary-coverts black or black-brown, inner ones 

 tipped white ; rest of wing-coverts sepia or hair-brown with a 

 greyish bloom, greater coverts broadly tipped, median and lower 

 lesser coverts narrowly edged white. This plumage is acquired by 

 complete moult July to Jan. Summer. Female. — The body- 

 feathers (not all scapulars), some innermost secondaries and coverts 

 (apparently not median and lesser coverts) are moulted Feb. to 

 June. Crown and centre of nape dull brown -slate ; mantle and 

 scapulars same but feathers more or less faintly edged white and 

 those of sides edged cinnamon or pink-buff, forming two streaks 

 converging towards centre ; remaining upper -parts as winter but 

 some tail-coverts marked cinnamon-buff at sides ; above and 

 below eye a small white patch, rest of sides of face deep brown -slate ; 

 sides of neck tawny ; lower -throat tawny, sometimes intermixed 

 with feathers spotted brownish-slate, sometimes entirely dull 

 brownish -slate ; sides of body as mantle but more or less irregularly 

 marked white ; flanks white with central streaks and shadings of 

 pale brown-slate and some under tail-coverts irregularly barred and 

 shaded same ; remaining under -parts white ; tail-feathers as 

 winter ; wing as winter but innermost secondaries and coverts. 



