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the inner primary-coverts tipped with white, most of the 
primaries white at the base of the outer web, the secondaries 
for the most part white, blackish towards the ends of the outer 
webs, the innermost secondaries dark slate-colour or blackish 
with sandy-rufous edges, like the back ; centre tail-feathers 
blackish with sandy margins, the lateral ones dark grey fringed 
with white, the outermost more broadly edged and having a 
white shaft; crown of head sooty-black; nape and hind-neck 
also blackish ; forehead, lores, anterior part of face, chin and 
upper throat dark slate-colour; feathers below the eye, a 
small streak above the latter, and ear-coverts white ; sides ol 
neck and entire surface of body vinous chestnut ; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries wliite ; quills ashy below, whitish ^^'ong 
the inner webs ; bill waxy-yellow with a jet-black tip ; feet dull 
yellowish. Total length, 7 inches; culmen, i; wing, 5-41 tail, 
2-6 ; tarsus, 0-85. 
Adult Male iu Breeding Plumage — Similar to the female, but 
not so brightly coloured, the head being sandy-brown, streaked 
with blackish like the back, and not so sooty-black as in the 
female bird ; sides of face vinous-chestnut, the base of the 
cheeks and chin tinged with slaty-grey, with a good deal cf 
white on the throat and under surface of body, which never 
seems to get so uniformly vinous-chestnut as in the adult 
female. Total length, 7-5 inches ; culmen, 0-85 ; wing, 5-05 ; 
tail, 2-55 ; tarsus, 2-55. 
Adult Male iu -Winter Plumage.— Bluish-grey with a black patch 
on the nape ; wings more dusky than in summer, but with the 
white markings similar, the innermost secondaries bluish-grey 
like the back and scapulars ; forehead, eyebrow, sides of face 
and entire under surface of body pure white ; the top of the 
crown white, slightly mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; 
feathers in front of the eye and a streak along the upper edge 
of the ear-coverts black. 
Young. — Distinguished from the adults by the sandy-buff 
margins to the feathers of the upper surface and by the vinous 
tinge of the throat and fore-neck ; the fore part of the crown 
is buffy-white, with a broad horse-shoe mark of black on the 
hinder crown. 
Range in Great Britain.— The Grey Phalarope visits us every 
