BRITISH BIRDS. 
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and fecondary quills are narrowly edged with white : 
on the middle of the back the feathers are brown^ 
edged with bright ruft colour : on the rump there 
are feveral feathers of the fame colour, but mixed 
with others of white, rufous, and lemon. The 
wings are long, and, when clofed, reach beyond 
the tail: the primary quills are du&y, the lower 
part of their inner Tides white ; fecondaries tipped 
with white : tail duil^y, edged with afli-colour : legs 
black. The fcalloped membranes on its toes dif. 
fer from thofe of the Red Phalarope, in being fine- 
ly ferrated on their edges. 
This curious. and pretty bird, like the preceding, 
is a native of the northern regions of Europe, Afia, 
and America, and migrates fouthward in the win- 
' ter. It has feldom been met with in any part of 
the Britilh Hies. Ray, however, faw one at Brig- 
nal, in Yorkfhire; and Mr Pennant mentions one 
which was fliot in the fame county ; Mr Tunllall 
another, ftiot at Staveley, in Derbyfiiire ; — and the 
fpecimen from which this drawing and defcription 
were taken, was Ihot near the city of Chefter, by 
Lieutenant- Colonel' Dalton, of the 4th regiment of 
dragoons, on the 14th of Oftober, 1800. 
