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SCOLOPACID.E. 
GRALLATORES. 
SCO LOP A CIDER. 
GREY PHALAROPE. 
Petalaropus lobatus. 
PLATE CIV. FIG. IT. 
It would be difficult to place tlie Plialaropes in a posi¬ 
tion more unnatural than that which they occupy at 
present in ornithological works, next to the waddling 
coot, which they resemble in nothing except their lobed 
feet; whilst, in almost all their habits and mode of life, 
and in the number, contour, and colouring of their eggs, 
they closely approximate to the sandpipers, next to which 
I have placed them. 
Of the habits of the Grey Phalarope very little is yet 
known. Mr. Proctor has had the eggs from a naturalist 
in Iceland, who says that he has met with the nest occa¬ 
sionally ; that it is very slight, and placed upon elevated 
ground in the midst of marsh. 
Mr. Holboell says that it comes the latest of all the 
Greenland birds, and does not arrive till the beginning of 
June, at which time it may be seen, in large flocks, in 
Davis Straits. That in his voyage to Greenland, in 1835, 
whilst shut up in the ice for eighteen days, he saw this bird 
swimming about amongst the blocks of ice. In South 
Greenland, it is rarely seen, and then only in its migra¬ 
tion southward. In North Greenland it is very common, 
and builds its nest there on nearly all the islands pos- 
