THE PHALAROPES. 
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Coots or Grebes. They have also another character which is 
Grebe-like, and which I have not yet seen recorded, viz., that 
on the hinder aspect or “sole” of the tarsus {planta tarsi) 
there is a distinctly coarse serration or pectination. Added 
to these characters, it must be noticed that the Phalaropes are 
adepts at swimming, and I have, therefore, in the “ Catalogue 
of Birds,” placed them at the very end of the Plovers, as a con- 
nective link between these birds and the Grebes. Another 
peculiarity is that the female Phalarope is always larger and 
more brightly coloured than the male. 
THE TRUE PHALAROrES. GENUS CRYMOPIIILUS. 
Crymophilus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 62 (1816). 
Type, C. fulicarius (L.). 
In the present genus the bill is rather flat and slightly 
widened towards the tip, the culmen being about equal in 
length to the tarsus, which is again equal to the middle toe 
and claw. 
I. THE GREY PHALAROPE. CRYMOPHILUS FULIC.ARIUS. 
Tringa fuHcaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766). 
Phalaropus lobatus, L. ; Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 284 (1852). 
Phalaropus fulicarius, Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 606, pi. 538 
(1874) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 164 (1883) ; Saunders, 
ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 310 (1883); Seebohm, Hist. 
Brit. B. iii. p. 85 (1885) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 549 
(1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxx. (1895). 
{Plate LXXXIV.) 
Adult Female in Breeding Plumage. — General colour above sandy- 
buff, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; scapulars like 
the back ; lower back dark slate-colour ; rump and upper tail- 
coverts chestnut with black centres to many of the feathers ; 
some of the tail-coverts slaty-grey with sandy margins ; lesser 
wing-coverts slaty-blue, with whitish edgings; the median 
series and greater coverts broadly tipped with white ; bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish with white shafts, 
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