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GREY PHALAROPE. 
Grey Coot-footed Tringa. Ediv. Birds, pi. 308. 
Grey Phalarope, Penn. Ard. Zool. 2. 412, Penn. Brit. Zool. 
2. 2]8. pi. 76. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 272. Levo. Brit. Birds, 5. 
pi. 194. Wale. Sijn. 2. 156. Mord. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. 
App. Beuo. Brit, Birds, 2. 140: Wils. Amer. Orn. ix. 72. 
Variety in change. — Phalaropus griseus. Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 
776. 
Tringa glacialis. Gjnel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 675. 
Plain Phalarope. Lath. Ge?i. Syn. 5. 273. Penn. Arct. Zool. 
2. 415. 
Young. — Tringa lobata. /3. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 674. 
Length about eight inches and a half: during the 
summer the beak is reddish-yellow at its base, and 
brown towards the tip : its irides are reddish-yellow : 
the head, nape, back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 
are dusky-brown, each feather being deeply edged 
with orange-red : above each eye is a yellow band : 
the wing-coverts are dusky tipped with white ; and 
on the wing is a transverse white band : the rump is 
white spotted with black : the fore part of the neck, 
the breast, belly, vent, and inferior tail-coverts are 
red : the legs are dusky green. In the winter the 
top of the head, the occiput, and the nape, are bright 
ash : the sides of the breast, the back, the scapulars, 
and the rump are bright ashy-blue : all the feathers 
are dusky in the centre ; and the longer ones of the 
scapulars are tipped with white : on the wing is a 
transverse white band : the tail-feathers are brown 
edged with ash-colour : the forehead, the sides of the 
neck, the middle of the breast, and the rest of the 
under parts are pure white : the legs are lead-co- 
loured : the beak is dusky. The young have a dusky 
spot of a horse-shoe shape on the occiput, and a band 
