black ; irides dark brown ; around the ey© a. patch of white ;
a narrow stripe down the back of th e Heck; all the back
and rump nearly black, with pale yellow margins ; lesser
wing-coverts lead-grey, edged with white ; greater .^ring-
coverts and secondaries lead-grey^,with broad ends of white;
tertials also lead-grey, margined with, orange-yellow ; quill
and tail-feathers almost black ; the fropt and sides of the
neck, th© breast, and all the under surface of the body
uniform : reddish-chegtnut, or bay ; nnder surface of tail-
feathers ash-grey ; legs, toes, and their lobed membranes
yellow ; the claws black.
When changing ih autumn to the plumage of winter!' the
bay under-colouP iSf lost by degrees ; the first grey feathers
th a t appear are the scapulars, and from thence down the
sides of the back afterwards thOS© of the interscapular
space, and the centre of the back below ; the orange-colpured
margins of the tertials becoming paler.
In winter the beak becom©8 black, more than halfway from
the tip ; around its base, and pp' the top of the head, white ;
irides dark brown ; around the eye dusky bla;ck ; a patch of
the same colour on the ear-coverts and on the opeiput ; back
of the neck,'scapulars, upper wing-côverts, and all the-back,
uniform pearl-grey ; greater coverts, secondaries, and.fertials,
lead-gfey, margined with white ; primaries as in summer ;
tail-feathers ash-grey, margined with white ; chin, neck in
front, breast, and all the under " surface 'cf -the body pure
white, except a small patch of pearl-grey before the point
of the wings, b u t not extending round -the front ; legs, .toes,
and membranes yellowish ; th e elaws black;
. Specimens vary considerably in size ; the females-ara the-
largest, and measure abpu't eight inches and -ai quarter- in
their whole .length p the males usually half - an .inch less;
from the carpal .joint to the end of th e wing, four inches and
three-quarters.
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P hadaropf.s hyperroreu.s "{Linnaeus*). j
T H E P H A L I E O P ^ , . -
T h e Red-necked P h a la r o pe is a t ‘once 'distinguished
from the Hiey Phalarope last described, by "its smaller size,
with a longer and na^J® slender ' beak, and j | vPregent^
much less seasonal variation in jfa’ p lumage.f i t , is both
mo re irregular, and less abundant on its visits, which are
principally in the ,'autumpf and rafely^on the spring migration
f i t has been observedln Sussex and Norfolk
and Suffolk,, according to .Mr.'^teyensbn, only about twenty
times inT as many y e a rs; in the Humber district seldom,
the latest record'being th a t oTthree in the autumn of 1881
(Rep.' Migr. C%m.'1882; p. 3 2 ); and also on the Yprkshire
coast; and very rarely in Northumberland. , Sometimes its
erratic course takes it inland, and on the 6th July, 1843, an
* Tringa hyperlorea, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p.
., t Owing, to the shape of its bill,; it has been made the type of a genus,
In association with the only other member of the group, L. wUsom, • and the
latter again has been given a.genus, fitwanopwr to itself.