RED LOBEFOOT. 
tipped with whitish : on the wing is a broad trans- 
verse white band : the forehead, throat, fore part of 
the neck, breast, and the rest of tlie under parts of 
the body white ; with the sides of the breast and 
the flanks clouded with bright ash, and a slight tinge 
of yellowish on the sides of the neck : the inner part 
of the tarsus is yellow, the outer, and the toes are 
greenish-yellow. 
This inhabits the rocks and shores of the northern 
seas, and is very abundant in the north-western Isles 
of Scotland, among the Orcades and the Hebrides : 
it is also common in Lapland, but rare towards the 
more southern parts of Europe : in England it is 
very scarce ; but has been shot in Yorkshire. It 
breeds in the Hebridal Islands in the marshes, and 
lays four eggs of the shape of those of the Snipe, but 
much less, of an olive colour blotched with dusky. 
