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PHALAROPE. 
— Penn. Br. Zool. p. 126. t. E. 1. fig. 3. — Ib. 2. No. 218. t. 76. — Arct. Zool. 2. 
No. 412 — Lewm’s Br. Birds, 5. t. 194. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 156. — Pult. Cat. 
Dorset, p. 15. — Phalaropus Lobatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 776. sp. 2 — Phala- 
rope a Festons Denteles, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 226. — Le Phalarope Gris, Cuv. Reg. 
Aniin. 1. p. 492. — Grey Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. t. 308 — Tringa Fulicaria, 
Brunn. Orn. Boreal, p. 51. No. 172. — Phalaropus Rufus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 
4. p. 381. — Tringa Hyperborea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 676. — Le Phalarope Rouge, 
Buff. Ois. 8. p. 225. — Phalarope Roussatre, Briss. Orn. 6. p. 20. No. 4. — Le 
Phalarope Rouge, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. p. 492. — Red Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. 
Glean, t. 142. — Red Phalarope, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 271. — Phalaropus Glacialis, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 776. sp. 3.. — Tringa Glacialis, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 273. — 
Phalarope, a cou Jaune, Sonn. edit, de Buff. 23. p. 298.— -Phalarope Platyr- 
hinchus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 712. 
In size this species is rather larger than the dunlin, weighing from 
about an ounce to an ounce and three-quarters ; length seven inches and 
a half ; breadth about sixteen inches ; the bill is black, flatted near 
the point, about an inch long ; irides dark ; the hind part of the head 
and neck dusky brown, dashed with ash-colour ; the upper part of the 
body, scapulars, and wing coverts, cinereous grey ; the feathers on the 
last darkest and edged with white ; the forehead, crown of the head, 
chin, and whole under parts, pure white, except at the bend of the 
wing on the sides of the breast, which is ash-colour ; a dusky spot on 
the cheek ; quills black ; tail dusky, edged with ash-colour ; legs com- 
pressed, like the divers, of a light-colour ; toes scolloped ; membranes 
serrated on the margins. This description was taken from a specimen 
killed at Alderton, in Wiltshire, the sex being unknown. 
This species seems to be subject to much variety of sex and age, 
which has led some naturalists to divide it into several distinct 
species. A variety of the grey Phalarope, shot in October, clearly 
demonstrates the changing plumage, from the P. glacialis of Latham 
to the P. lohatus, having a sufficient quantity of the cinereous fea- 
thers on the hack and scapulars, to shew that it was the Phalarope. 
In another specimen, more advanced towards maturity, the crown of 
the head was more mixed with white, and the back had less of the 
rufous margined feathers, and more of cinereous grey ; but there re- 
mained of the former three lines down the back, besides a few such 
feathers scattered on other parts ; the neck before had also less of the 
clay-colour ; the legs flesh-colour, tinged with yellow on the inside, the 
outside dusky, the webs partly dusky, partly yellow. To these varieties 
Temminck has added the Red Phalarope, Tringa fulicaria, which 
Mr. Bullock informed Colonel Montagu he found to be common in 
the marshes of Sunda and Westra, in the breeding* season, where it 
was so tame, that he killed nine without moving from the spot, it being 
not in the least alarmed at the report of a gun. It seems a scarce and 
solitary bird with us ; we once had an opportunity of seeing one swim- 
ming in a small pool of water left, by the tide, on the Sussex coast. 
