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GREY PHALAROPE. 
the plumage ; above, and behind the eye, is a broad 
streak of pale sienna-yellow ; the throat is pale 
greyish -black ; the crown running in a point to the 
occiput, is very deep clove-brown ; the centre of 
the back, running slightly upon the back of the 
neck, is deep blackisli-brown, each feather broadly 
edged with sienna-yellow ; the tail of a cuneated 
form, is clove-brown ; the wings of the same tint, 
darker on the quills, which have strong broad white 
shafts; the secondaries are broadly tipped with white, 
forming a conspicuous bar across the wing ; the bill 
appears to have been yellow, deep brown at the tip, 
legs and feet of the same colour, probably a slightly 
duller tint. In another specimen, from the same 
locality, the lower parts are not nearly so intense or 
uniform in their tint, and the dark crown has the 
feathers broadly edged with rufous-orange, almost 
entirely destroying the dark appearance seen in that 
part of the other specimen. In the winter state, the 
plumage has a beautifully chaste appearance ; the 
forehead, crown of the head (in its other state so 
dark), the throat, and all the under parts, pure 
white ; the occiput descending for some way down 
the nape and the auriculars greyish-black ; the back 
and scapulars chaste bluish-grey, the shafts of the 
feathers appearing darker, and each being narrowly 
edged with pale yellowish-white ; the wings as in 
the summer state, but of a deeper tint, and on the 
shoulders having the feathers broadly edged with 
white. In a specimen killed on the Solway in the 
beginning of winter, the above colours have been 
