Okdee LIMICOL^.] 
[Fam. SCOLOPACID^. 
PHALAEOPTIS FULICAEIUS. 
(THE GREY PHALAEOPE.) 
Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766, ex Edw.). 
Tringa glaeialis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 676 (1788). 
Phalaropus lohatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 766 (1790). 
Phalaropus glacialis (Gmel.), Lath. tom. cit. p. 776 (1790). 
Phalaropus rufus, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. ed. 2, iv. p. .381 (1809). 
Phalaropus platyrliynchus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. p. 459 (1815). 
Phalaropus griseus, Leach, Cat. M. «& B. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1816). 
Crymophilus rufus (Bechst.), Vieill. N. Diet. viii. p. 521 (1817). 
Lohipes hyperhoreas, Boss in Boss’s Voy., 8vo, ii. App. p. 167 (1819, nec Linn.). 
Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List, p. 54 (1838). 
Phalaropus platyrostris, Nordm. in DemidofF, Voy. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 250 (1840). 
Phalaropus asiaticus, Hume, Stray Feathers, i. p. 246 (1873). 
$ ad. phi. ffisA pdeo, nucha, mento et plumis ad basin rostri nigris, pileo saturatiore, macuM magntl albd peri- 
opthalmica fere ad nucham product^ : collo postico nigricaute : dorso et scapularibus nigris, plurais omnibus 
rufescenti-ochraceo marginatis : primariis nigricanti-cinereis, rliachidibus albis, pogonio externo ad basin 
albido : secundariis cinereis albido marginatis, intimis nonnullis brevibus ferb omnino albis, secundariis intimis 
elongatis nigricanti-emereis versus apicem albido vix marginatis : tectricibus alarum nigricanti-cinereis, 
medianis albido vix apicatis, et majoribus conspicue albo terminatis ; uropygio cinereo : supracaudalibus ferru- 
gineis medialiter nigro notatis ; reetricibus centralibus nigricantibus, rcliquis saturate cinereis, duabus ex- 
timis versus apicem ru£o notatis : corpore subtiis saturate ferruginco : subalaribus albis cinereo notatis : 
pedibus sordide olivaceis : rostro fla.vo, ad apicem nigro : iride fused. 
(J ad. ptil. (Est. minor et sordidior : pileo baud nigro sed nueba et dorso nigricantibus, brunnescenti-ocbraceo 
notatis, maculd capitis laterali indistincta, et corpore subtus pallidiore, abdominis plumis albo marginatis 
facile a femina distinguendus. 
Ptil. Mem. fronte, guld, collo et corpore subtus pure albis, pileo nigro, plumis albis immixtis : nuebd, collo postico 
et dorso antico nigris vix albido notatis : dorso et uropygio cum scapularibus pallide cjerulescenti-cinereis 
Aux nigro notatis : alis ut in ptilosi sestivali, sed nigricantibus nec nigricanti-cinereis : fascid nigrd per 
oculos produetd : rostro olivaceo : pedibus grisescenti-olivaceis. 
Adult femaU in hreeding-plumage. Crown, nape, chin, and all round the base of the bill black, this colour being 
most intense on the crown ; a large white patch covering the sides of the head round the eye, and extending 
backwards to the nape, where it nearly joins ; entire uuderparts and neck all round, except a narrow central 
black line at the back, rich dark rusty red ; back and scapulars black, the feathers all margined with rusty 
yellow ; primaries blackish grey on the outer web and on the central and terminal portion of the inner web 
the outer and basal portion being white ; shafts white ; secondaries dark greyish, margined with white, one or 
two of the inner short ones nearly pure white ; elongated inner secondaries blackish grey, narrowly edo-ed 
with white at the tip ; wing-coverts dark grey, the median coverts slightly edged with whitish, and larger 
wing-coverts broadly terminated with white, forming a broad white bar across the wing ; rump greyish • 
upper tail-coverts dark rusty red, marked with dark brown or black along the centre of some of the feathers • 
central rectrices blackish, remainder dark slate-grey, the two outer ones on each side marked with dark rufous 
towards the tip ; under wing-coverts white and grey varied. Irides dark brown ; bill flat, in colour yellowish. 
