RED-NECKED OR NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 
buff ; tail blackish-brown, narrowly margined with golden buff ; ear-coverts smoky-brown ; 
a large patch of white over the eyes ; throat white ; chest and upper breast smoky-grey 
becoming browner on the sides of the body ; belly white, tinged with pale buff on the ilanbs 
and under tail-coverts. Total length 140 : oulmen 18, wing 81, tail 45, tarsus 19. Collected 
at Muli Laxardalr, Iceland, July 28th, 1894. 
Nestling female. Fore-head, sides of crown and sides of face golden-buff ; a minute spot of black at 
base of upper mandible ; a narrow line of black from the base of the upper mandible, widening 
out on the crown and continued down the back of the neck and mantle, mixed and tipped 
with golden-buff ; a narrow black streak from the lores to the eye ; a black patch behind the 
eye to the ear-coverts ; remainder of upper parts variegated with black, cinnamon and 
golden-buff ; throat and fore-neck golden-buff ; chest, breast white ; lower abdomen and 
vent golden-brown, freckled with black. Culmen 11 mm., tarsus 17. Collected at 
Karesuando, North Sweden, on July 7th, 1888. 
Nest. Deep little hollows, lined with a few bits of grass, in the little mounds or tussocks in the wet 
meadows around the borders of the ponds or near small streams. 
Eggs . Clutch four. Sub-pyriform to ovate pyriform, slightly glossy and very fragile. Ground 
colour ranges from pale olive-buff to dark olive-buff, others from isabella colour to buckthorn- 
brown. Some eggs are boldly marked with large irregular blotches varying from sepia to 
deep blackish-brown, underlying ones in various drab shades, small, inconspicuous and not 
numerous. Some evenly covered with small spots and dots, but more often these are mixed 
with larger irregular spots or blotches. The average of 119 eggs is 29 mm. by 20 (Bent). 
Breeding-season. May 20th to July 23rd, Alaska. 
Distribution. Arctic coasts, breeding ; wandering through America to the south of South 
America. North Africa, Europe, Hawaiian and Galpago Islands. Japan, Southern Asia, 
Malayan and Moluccan Islands, Aru Islands, New Guinea and New Zealand (one record) 
(Bent). 
