RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 271 
margined with white; bill black, legs and toes 
greenish-grey.” 
In the winter state, the description is taken 
from a bird killed in Northumberland. “ Fore- 
head white, tinged with cinereous ; crown of the 
head, streak behind the eyes, and list down the 
back of the neck, blackish-grey ; chin, throat, 
middle of the belly, abdomen, and middle tail- 
coverts, white, with a slight pinkish tinge. Sides 
of the neck and breast grey, with a faint blush of 
purplish-red ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, 
black, the feathers of the former deoply edged with 
yellowish -brown, and the greater wing-coverts 
having their tips white, forming a distinct bar 
across the wings ; middle feathers of the tail black, 
margined with yellowish-brown, the rest ash-grey, 
margined with white.”* Our Arctic specimen 
had the crown, nape, and auriculars, clove-brown, 
on the first and second mixed with greyish-white 
and rufous ; the throat, neck, and entire under 
parts, pure white, on the fore part of the neck, 
and sides of the breast, having traces of clove- 
brown and rufous ; behind the auriculars, and 
running down each side of the neck, the red streak 
of the complete summer plumage is indicated ; the 
back and upper parts are umber-brown, mixed 
with feathers having ochreous edges, and with the 
dark grey plumage edged with white intermixed ; 
the quills dark brownish-black. 
* Selby, ii. jj. 167-8. 
