TRINGINiE. LOBIPES. 
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ed with light red ; wing-coverts and quills greyish-black ; a 
white band across the wing ; the rump white, streaked with 
dusky ; the tail deep grey, dusky toward the end ; forehead 
dusky grey ; sides of head, white ; fore-neck, breast, abdomen, 
and lower tail coverts, light red. 
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Extends in summer into the Arctic regions of both Conti- 
nents, where it breeds. The eggs are ovato-pyriform, four, 
an inch and two-eighths long, seven-eighths in breadth, oil- 
green, clouded and spotted with umber-brown. Although it 
searches the shores of the sea, lakes, and rivers, in the man- 
ner of a Tringa, it is frequently seen at a great distance from 
land, walking on masses of floating sea- weeds, or swimming 
in the open ocean. Its economy in this respect is not more 
j wonderful for a bird of this family than that of the Coot in the 
; family of Gallinules, and more especially of the Dipper in that 
of Thrushes or Ant-catchers. Its flight is rapid, according to 
Mr Audubon, like that of Tringa Cinclus ; it runs with ease, 
and swims with great speed. 
Red Phalarope. Grey Phalarope. Coot-foot. 
Tringa lobata and fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 249.- — Pha- 
!| laropus lobatus and glacialis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 77 6. — 
Phalaropus platyrhynchus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 712. — 
Phalaropus lobatus, Grey Phalarope, MacGillivray, Brit. 
Birds, iv. 
GENUS C. LOBIPES. LOBEFOOT, 
| It appears that not more than three species of this genus 
| are known. They are small birds of slender form, with 
I the body somewhat elongated ; the neck rather long and 
I slender ; the head small, compressed, with the forehead ele- 
j vated and rounded. Bill rather longer than the head, 
[ straight, or very slightly recurved, very slender, depressed, 
jj tapering ; upper mandible with the ridge convex, flattened 
! at the base, the nasal groove extending nearly to the end, 
! the tip slender and pointed ; lower mandible with the angle 
long and extremely narrow, the sides sloping outwards and 
grooved for three-fourths, the tip acute. Mouth extremely 
j narrow ; tongue long, extremely slender, horny, trigonal, 
grooved above, tapering to a fine point ; oesophagus narrow ; 
proventrieuius oblong ; stomach elliptical, with strong late- 
