THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 643 



sepia without grey bloom and sometimes faintly edged cinnamon 

 on outer webs. Male. — As female but feathers of crown, nape and 

 upper-mantle dark sepia, narrowly edged pink-buff and faintly 

 tipped white ; feathers of rest of mantle black-brown or sepia tipped 

 and edged white and usually plentifully margined cinnamon or 

 pink-buff ; centre of back, rump and central upper tail-coverts 

 sepia edged white, some upper tail-coverts edged cinnamon at 

 sides ; sides of face sepia, tawny patch on side of neck less exten- 

 sive ; lower -throat, upper-breast and patch on sides of breast and 

 belly sepia, feathers fringed white (sometimes feathers of throat 

 margined tawny and sometimes lower-throat more or less tawny) ; 

 flanks white with central streaks and shadings of pale sepia ; under 

 tail-coverts white, some with sepia shaft -streaks. 



Nestling. — Pattern and coloration as Grey Phalarope but 

 yellow of upper -parts brighter and richer ; no black-brown line at 

 base of bill. 



Juvenile. Male and female. — Fore -head and lores white ; 

 crown black-brown, feathers faintly margined at sides warm buff ; 

 centre of nape sooty-brown ; sides of nape white ; mantle and 

 scapulars black or black-brown, feathers tipped and broadly 

 margined warm buff ; centre of back and rump sooty-brown ; 

 central upper tail-coverts 

 black-brown notched and 

 tipped buff, lateral ones 

 white streaked brown ; eye 

 surrounded by black-brown 

 patch continued across ear- 

 coverts as adult winter ; 

 eye -stripe white ; sides of 

 body pale sepia, feathers Juve^^R^a-neckedPhaU.^ 



edged and suffused light 



vinaceous-buff or white ; lower -throat white, feathers more or less 

 suffused and faintly tipped light vinaceous-buff ; flanks white more 

 or less suffused buff, streaked pale sepia centrally ; rest of under - 

 parts white ; tail-feathers narrower and more pointed at tip than 

 in adult, central ones edged buff ; wing as adult but innermost 

 secondaries and coverts as scapulars, lower median coverts broadly 

 edged white or buff. 



First winter and first summer. — (Not examined.) 



Soft parts. — Bill blackish ; legs and feet (ad. summer) dark 

 blue-grey, (juv.) blue-flesh ; iris brown-black. 



Measurements and structure. — $ wing 106-110 mm., tail 43-47, 

 tarsus 19-21, bill from feathers 20-23.5 (12 measured). $ wing 

 112-118, bill 20-24.5. Primaries : 1st minute, 2nd longest, 3rd 

 about equal or 2-3 mm. shorter, 4th 3.5-8 shorter, 5th 12-15 

 shorter, 6th 19-23 shorter. Longest inner secondary between 

 4th and 6th primaries . Bill short, straight, slender, slightly flattened 

 at base, tapering to a point. Nostrils basal ; nasal groove extending 



