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brown, in some instances, with a slight olive tinge. More 
rarely eggs with a light clay-brown ground are found. Ihe 
markings are heavy, and consist of large spots of dark brown 
or blackish, often confluent at the larger end of the egg, and 
forming large blotches. The underlying spots arc of a greyish- 
brown. Axis, 1-15-1 ’4 inch; diam., -o-SS-o-g. 
THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. GENUS PIIALAROPUS. 
Phalaropus, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 12 (1760). 
Type, P. hyperboreus (L.). 
In the Red-necked Phalaropes the bill is very long and 
slender, and tapers to a point without being widened in any 
way. The tarsus is longer than the middle toe and claw. 
Only one species is known. 
I. THE RED-NECKED PH.ALAROPE. 
HYPERBOREUS. 
i. 
PHALAROPUS 
Trinm hyperborea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 
Lobipes hyperboreus, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 291 (1852). 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 59^ pis. 537, 
fig 2 (1874); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 164 
(1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarrcll, Brit. B. m. p. 3^5 (‘^^3) i 
Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. 89 (1885); Saunders, Man. 
Brit. B. p. 55' (1889). 
Adult Temale in Breeding Plumage.— General colour above dark 
slaty-grey, with a band of sandy-buff down each side ot the 
mantle; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts slaty-blackish 
with white margins ; some of the lateral tail coverts, for the most 
part, white, with blackish spots ; wing-coverts slaty-black, the 
greater series tipped with white, forming a band ; bastard-wing 
and inner primary-coverts tipped with white, like the greater 
coverts ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, the primaries with 
white shafts, the secondaries edged with while, the median ones, 
for the most part, white on the inner web also ; scapulars 
lengthened like the inner secondaries, and most of them exter- 
nally spotted with sandy-buff, forming a parallel band to the 
