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PlIALAROPUS WILSONII. 
in the generic characters, which Temminck, in 
Manuel, has not sufficiently observed. 
In the Appendix to Montague’s Supplement to 
Ornithological Dictionary, we find tlie following 
marks on this species, there named /wh'caria .• — “ 
have before mentioned that thi.s bird had been obser^f" 
ill the Orkneys in considerable abnndancein the snmio®^’ 
and that no doubts were entertained of its breedio? 
there, although the nest had not been found. To 
Bullock, therefore. We are indebted for the fartb^* 
elucidation of the natural history of this elegant lit*^* 
bird. In a letter to the author, this gentleman sart 
‘ I found the red pbalnrope common in the marshes ‘r 
Sanda and Westra, in the breeding season, but wbi^" 
it leaves in the autumn. This bird is so extreniW 
tame, that I killed nine without moving out of the sal”* 
spot, being not in the least alarmed at the report of ’ 
gun. It lays four eggs, of the shape of that of a snip'* 
but much less, of an olive colour, blotched with dusW' 
It swims with the greatest case, and, when on the ivatf' 
looks like a beautiftil miniature of a duck, carrying 
head close to the back, iu the manner of'a teal.’ ^ 
Bullock farther ohserves, ‘ That the plumage of 
female is much lighter, and has less of the rufous tb** 
the other sex.’ ” 
SQBGENUS II. — hOBIVES, CL’VIER. 
242. rjlALAROPlfS FULICABIUSj WILSON GRAY FHALAROl’^' 
WILSON, PLATE LXXIII, FIG. IV. 
Bill, pretty stout and wide, slightly compressed •‘J 
tlie tip, tiepressufl on tlie louver halfj upper 
carinate ; nostrils, suboA’ate, a short distance from 
base j feet, scxiiipalmate, lobes of the toes, broad 
"reatly scalloped, bind toe, barely touching- the 
Bill, reddish orange at the base, the remainder blacbj ^ 
'* Named in the plate, Red Phalarope. 
