BRITISH BIRDS, 
140 
GREY PHALAROPE. 
COOT-FOOTED TRINGA, OR SCALLOP-TOED 
SANDPIPER. 
{^Trlnga Lohata, Lin . — Le Phalarope, a fejlons dentiles^ Buff.) 
The bill of this bird is nearly an inch long : the 
upper mandible is of a dufky horn colour, grooved 
on each fide, and flatted near the tip ; the under 
one is orange towards the bafe. The eyes are 
placed high in the head ; there is a dark patch un- 
derneath eachj and the fame on the hinder part of 
the head and neck. The flioulder and fcapular fea- 
thers are of a fine lead colour, edged with white : 
fore part of the head, throat, neck, and breafl, 
white : the belly is alfo white, but flightly dafh- 
ed with pale ruff colour : the greater coverts are 
broadly tipped with white, which forms an oblique 
bar acrofs the wings, when clofed : fome of the firll 
