BRITISH BIRPS, 
139; 
RED PHALAROPE. 
{T"ringa hyperlorea^ Lin . — Le Phalarope cendre^ BufF.) 
The bill is black, Bender, ftrait, about an inch 
long, and bent a little downwards at the tip. A 
dulky flripe paffes through the eyes to the back part 
of the head, where it is joined to a reddifh one 
above it, which falls down on the fides of the neck : 
the chin and throat are white ; the top of the head, 
hinder part of the neck, breafl, and wing coverts 
of a lead colour, darkeft on the breafl: : the back 
and fcapulars are the fame, but flriped with yellow- 
ifli rufty edges : the greater coverts are croflTed with 
a white ftripe ; the quills dufky : the tail coverts 
are barred with black and white : tail fliort, and of 
a cinereous colour : belly white : legs black. 
This fpecies is rarely met with in England ; but 
it is faid to be pretty common on the Continent. 
It is, however, a native of the Arctic regions, and 
only migrates fouthward to fliun the long dreary 
freezing period of the winter months. In fummer 
it returns to breed and rear its young, and has 
been met with by voyagers and travellers in Hud- 
fon’s Bay, Greenland, Spitzbergen, &c. It is feen 
in Greenland in x'lpril, and is faid to leave it ip 
September. 
