PLATE CLVII. 



Phalaropus Cinereus. Bnf,6.p. IS. 2. 

 Gock Coot-footed Tringa. Edw, /. 143.- 



Red Phalaropq. Br- Zool 2. n, 219. 17. — Lath, Gen, Syn. 5. 270. 1, 

 Tringa Fulicaria. Linn. Syjl. l.p. 616. 6. (Jem,) 



There are certain birds v/hich it is weli known to the experienced 

 Ornithologiil, exhibit at the two remote periods of the year the win- 

 ter and the fiimmer, a mofi: llrikirig difference in their appearance, 

 and this indeed fo very confiderable in certain inftances as to mif- 

 guide the beil informed, if they have not the good fortune to afcer- 

 tai« the fame bird under both the circumftances of the winter and 

 fummer pliunacre. 



Befides thefe very prominent varieties in which the diftin6lIons 

 are llrongjy marked, there are intermediate tranfitions which denote 

 the progreiTive advancement of one llate of plumage to the other, 

 and thefe are fometimes no lefs ambiguous, or lefs calculated to 

 miflcad. Thefe remarks will apply generally to all birds which 

 inhabit equally the cold and warmer climates ; to the whole of the 

 fandpiper tribe in a particular manner, and as may be conceived to 

 the varieties of that fe6tion which are denominated Phalaropes, the 

 natural order to which the bird before us appertains. 



This birdfappears to conftitute one of thofe ambiguous varieties, 

 but which is probably ambiguous in its firft appearance only, for with 

 a little caution it may eafily be reduced we think to its legitimate 



fpecies I 



