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Female. Tringa fulicaria. Linn. Syst. i. 249. 10 . 
Faun. Grcc.nl. no. 76. Gmel. Syst. i. 676. 6. 
Phalaropus rufescens. Briss. vi. 20. 4. Id. 8vo. 
ii. 363. 
Le Phalarope rouge. Buff. viii. 22.5. 
Red Coot-footed Tringa. Edw. t. 142. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus. Lath. Ind. Orn. v. 2. 775. 
T. JV. Simmons's MSS. 
This bird is 7 inches in length. Bill 4 inch, black. Eye- 
lids white. Tarsi black, compressed. Toes united as far 
as the first, second, and third phalanx of the inner, middle, 
and outermost toes respectively ; the unconnected part of 
the toes webbed ; margins of the web scalloped and pec- 
tinated. Claws black. The female differs from the male 
in having the head of a dusky black, and the throat of a 
white colour ; also on the fore part a bright ferruginous 
spot, extending upwards on each side towards the head, 
but which is prevented from encircling the neck by a very 
narrow streak of a dark cinereous colour. This is con- 
tinued from the head to the back. The dusky streaks on 
the back are fewer and paler. The cinereous colour is every 
where much darker than that of the male. 
This species was procured in July 1 803, at the edges of the 
fresh-water lochs in the Islands of Sunda and N. Ro- 
naldsha. 
Six females and two males were dissected, and remains 
of fresh-water insects were found in their stomachs. From 
the small size of the ovaria, and the length and thickness of 
the oviduct, it was concluded that the eggs had been lately 
laid. It was sufficiently evident from dissection that the 
