wit.son’s phalarope. 
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female; the mantle-feathers blackish-brown, wth reddish 
edges ; the crown of the head umforin blackish, the nape 
white, shading off into ashy-grey on 
vinous parts of the upper surface indicated as in ^ 
but the colour never so bright, and always of a dull chestnut , 
rump and upper tail-coverts white, with a 
dusky-brown, forming a kind of horse-shoe mark on Scathe , 
the lateral upper tail-coverts white ; sides "^1 
like the sides of the neck, slightly mixed wuth black, but not 
entirely black, as in the female; under surface of body as in 
the female, but the rufous part duller. 1 otal length, 8 3 
inches ; culmen, 1-25 ; wing, 4'9 5 rSs ; tarsus, 1-25. 
Adult Male in Winter Plnmage.— General colour above light 
ashy-grey, with narrow white fringes to the feathers; lo^r back 
somewhat more dusky ; rump and upper tad-cpvcrts t^hite 
the longer tail-coverts ashy-grey, with white margins , 
head ashy-grey, like the neck; forehead, a broad eyebrow, 
sides of face, and entire under surface of body pure white , 
feathers in front of the eye blackish ; along the top of ear- 
coverts a line of ashy ; sides of upper breast shaded with light 
ashy. 
Young.— Mottled on the upper surface, the feathers beuig 
blackrsh in the centre, with light sandy-buff edges, being 
broader and rather more distinct on the wing-coverts, scapulars, 
Ld inner secondaries ; the lower back like the rest of the 
upper surface ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, the former 
wdth dusky centres to the feathers ; tail-feathers brown a 1 but 
the centre ones white on the inner web; bastard-wing, pra y 
coverts, and primaries as in the adult ; crown of head blackish, 
the feathers W'd with sandy-buff, the hind-neck more ash), 
the feathers with dusky centres and narrow ashy-brown margins 
forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, and under-surface of body 
white with a tinge of ashy on the eyebrow ; lower throat fore- 
neck ’and chest, as well as the sides of the body, tinged with 
isabelline, the sides of the breast and flanks mottled with 
blackish centres to the feathers. 
Range in Great Britain.-On May 18, 1886 at a meeting of the 
Zoological Society of London, Mr. J. Whitaker exhibited a 
specimen of this species, which was stated to have been shot 
