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ipecies : thete can be no doubt in our mind that it is no other than 

 d very pretty and interefting variety of the bird already defcribed by 

 writers under the title of the Red Phalarope; a variety, the efFedl of 

 feafon merely^ and not entitled as fome confider it to the appellation 

 of the " New Red Phalarope.'* The Red Phalarope in its ordinary 

 ftate of plumage, is by no means common in Britain ; it is 

 better known to the more northern naturalifls, as it is an 

 inhabitant of the regions mbre approximating to the polar circle, and 

 is defcribed by Linnasus under the title of Tr'tnga hyperhorea^ 

 Lat6r author^ have determined the Linnaean Tringa hyperborea, and 

 Tringa fulicaria to be the two fexes of the fame fpecies, which opi- 

 nion has been in its turn amended by fubfequent refearch, the refult 

 of which has proved the exittence of two fexes in both fulicaria and 

 hyperborea. Dr. Latham was led to believe them to be the two 

 fexes of one fpecies^ 



The very fingular ftrufture of the feet in the Phalaropes render 

 them particularly curious, befides which their plumage generally is 

 yery pleafingly diverfified ; there is an unufual delicacy in that of 

 the Grey Phalarope, and the Red Phalarope in point of gaiety com- 

 penfates for the niinor defedl of being lefs chafte in its colours and 

 variegations than its Very analogous fpecies. 



There is fome account extant, that the Red and Grey Phalaropes 

 have been fliot in Yorkfliire, and it was concluded on this or fimilar 

 authority, that they were the two fexes of the fame fpecies^ an 

 opinion, as before obferved, which has been fince removed by the 

 moft cogent of all evidence, the demonllration of anatomical invefti- 

 gation. 



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