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BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE RED NECKED PHALAROPE. 
(Tringa hyperhorea,) 
The bill is an inch long, flatted and black at the 
tip ; the rest of both mandibles are orange coloured | 
the head is capped with dusky mouse coloured brown^ 
extending from the bill to the hinder part; the throat 
and about the corners of the mouth, are also of the 
same colour, but paler and inclining to ash ; the cheeks 
and sides of the head are white, which, meeting at the 
nape, falls half way down the hinder part of the neck 
in a stripe, and gradually deepens into ash and dusky 
brown towards the shoulders ; the latter, with the sca- 
pulars and tail coverts, are black, tipped, bordered, 
and striped with pale rusty yellow ; the middle of the 
back, and the lesser and greater coverts are of a dusky 
ash, the latter tipped with white; the tertials and the 
exterior webs of the quills are dusky ; but the greater 
part of the inner webs of the latter are pale ash, fading 
into white : the tail consists of twelve feathers, the two 
middle ones, which are the longest, are plain dusky 
