GREY PHALAROPE. 
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port of a gun. It lays four eggs, of the shape of that of a 
snipe, but much less, of an olive colour, blotched with dusky. 
It swims with the greatest ease, and, when on the water, looks 
like a beautiful miniature of a duck, carrying its head close to 
the back, in the manner of a teak’ Mr Bullock farther ob- 
serves, ‘ That the plumage of the female is much lighter, and 
has less of the rufous than the other sex.’ ” * 
GREY PHALAROPEf — PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS. 
Plate LXXIIL Fig. 4. 
Tringa fulicaria, Linn, Syst. ed. 10, tom. i. p. 148, 6. — Tringa glacialis, Gmel. 
Syst. i. p. 675, 2. T. Eyperborea, var. B. Id, p. 676. — Le Phalarope, JBriss, 
Orn. vi. p. 12, No. 1. — Plialai’opus rufescens. Id, p. 20. — Phalaropus lobatus, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 776, 2. P. glacialis. Id. No. 3. — Red Phalarope, fern, Gen. 
Syn. iii. p. 271 Grey Phalarope, Id. p. 272, 2 Plain Phalarope, Id. p. 273, 
3 Grey Phalarope, Penn. British Zool. No. 218 Arct. Zool. No. 412. — 
Red Phalarope, Id. No. 413. — Plain Phalarope, Id, 415. — Red Coot-footed 
Tringa, Edw. pi. 142. — Grey Coot-footed Tringa, Id. Gleanings., pi. 308 Le 
Phalarope rouge, Buffon, Ois. viii. p. 225. — Le Phalarope a festons denteles. Id. 
p. 226 Gi-ey Phalarope, Montagu, Orn. Diet, and Appendix to Supp Bewick, 
ii. p. 132. — Le Phalarope gris, Cuv. Reg. An. i. p. 492. — Le Phalarope rouge. 
Id. ibid. — Phalaropus platyrhinchus, Temm. Man. d' Orn, p. 712. — PeaWs Mu- 
seum, No. 4088. 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS.— t 
Phalaropus hyperborea, Ord. 1st. edit, of Supp. p. 75. — Phalaropus fullcarius, 
Bonap. Synop. p. 341. Nomenclature, No. 232. — Phalaropus lobatus, Grey 
Phalarope, P/em. Br. Anim. p. 100. — Grey Phalarope, iyeZfey, Illust. Br. Ornith. 
2d ed. pi. 28. 
Bill pretty stout and wide, slightly compressed at the tip, 
depressed on the lower half ; upper mandible, carinate ; nos- 
trils, subovate, a short distance from the base ; feet, semipal- 
mate; lobes of the toes, broad and greatly scalloped; hind toe, 
* All observations referring to European birds in this description cannot ap- 
ply. L. Wilsonii Is yet known only as American. The last may be referred 
with propriety however to Lohipes hyperhoreus. — Ed. 
f Named in the plate. Red Phalarope. 
t This bird is here represented in the change from the summer or breeding 
state, to that of the grey plumage of its winter dress, in which alternations it 
