Order CHAR A DRIIFORMES. 
No. 125. 
Family PHALAR0P1D£. 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS. 
RED OR GREY PHALAROPE 
(Plates 91 & 92.) 
Tringa fulicaria Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th edn., Vol. I., p. 148, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Hudson Bay, North 
America. 
Tringa fulicaria Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th edn., Vol. I., p. 148, Jan. 1st, 1758. 
Crymo'philus fulicarius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XNIV., p. 693, 1896 (pref. 10th July); 
Buller, Birds New Zealand, Suppl., Vol. I., p. 181, 1905. 
Pkalaropus fulicarius Dresser, Birds Europe, Vol. VII., p. 605, pis. 538,539, 1874; Buller, Birds 
New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 30, 1888 ; Mathews and Iredale, Ibis, 1913, p. 262, April; 
Forbush, Birds Massachusetts, Vol. I., p. 372, pi. 24,1925 (Nov.) (male and female in breeding 
plumage ; adult in winter plumage) ; Bent, Life Hist. North Amer. Shore Birds (Limicolae, 
pt. i.), p. 1, 1927 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral.* p. 183, June 13th, 1927; id.. Emu, Vol. 
XXIX., pt. 4, p. 281, April 1st, 1930. 
Distribution. Arctic regions of both Old and New World, south in winter to Africa, India and 
South America. One occurrence in Waimate, South Island, New Zealand, in June 1883. 
Adult female (in summer). Lores, fore-head and top of the head black, a white band passing over 
and in front of the eye and encircling the crown ; mantle, scapulars, lower back and rump 
black, widely bordered with golden-buff or straw-colour ; middle upper tail covered like 
the back, lateral ones rufous-chestnut; lesser, median and greater coverts dark grey; 
secondaries white ; primary-quills black, shading into ash-grey on the inner webs; middle 
pairs of tail-feathers dark grey at the base, shading into black towards the tip; outermost 
pairs grey, margined and toothed on the outer web with rufous-buff ; chin and throat greyish- 
black ; remainder of under-parts deep chestnut; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 
Eyes dark brown ; bill yellowish, with tip black ; legs dull olive. Total length about 
210 mm. : culmen 25, wing 139, tail 64, tarsus 24. Point Barrow', Alaska, 4th June, 1898. 
The adult male (in summer). Is duller in colour. Crown, nape and back black, marked with 
rusty or yellowish-brown, all the feathers being margined with this colour so as only to 
allow the black to appear through here and there. The white patch on the side of the face 
is almost obsolete and the under-parts are much duller, the feathers on the low’er abdomen 
being edged with white. 
Adult female (in winter). Fore-head, lores and crown of the head white ; back of the head and 
neck blackish ; mantle, shorter scapulars, lower back and rump lavender-grey, each feather 
narrowly bordered with white ; longer scapulars brownish-black, narrowly margined with 
white; upper tail-coverts blackish, broadly margined with rufous-buff; wing-coverts 
blackish, margined with white ; secondaries white ; primary-quills black, shading into 
grey on the inner web ; tail-feathers brownish-slate, margined with white, and tipped with 
rnfous-buff ; a black streak below' the eyes ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks and entire 
under-parts, including the under wing-coverts, w f hite, excepting a slate-grey patch on each 
side of the chest. Total length about 200 mm. : culmen 23, wing 131, tail 66, tarsus 24. 
Thurlestone, England, October 15th, 1891. 
Young in juvenile pluinage. Resembles the adult male in breeding plumage above, but the fore¬ 
head is light buff or white ; the feathers of the upper buck and scapulars, wing-coverts, 
tertials, back, rump and upper tail-coverts edged, but not tipped, with cinnamon-buff; 
fore-neck, sides of breast, sides and Hanks reddish-buff ; other under-plumage mainly white. 
(Forbush.) 
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