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dulky ftripe: behind each eye is a rufous one, palling on the. fldes
of the neck, and joining the laft behind: the rump and upper, tail
coverts are banded dulky and white: all the under parts of the
body white, the under wing coverts eroded with black lines : the
upper coverts are alh-colour; the greater incline to brown, and
are tipped with white, forming a band on the wingsfcapulare
margined with rufous : quills dulky; fome of the fecondaries
tipped with white : tail dulky : legs lead-colour.
T o n g a fulicaria, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 249. 10.— Faun. Groin!. N ° 7 &
L e Phalarope rouflatre, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 20. 4.
------------------- rouge, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 225.
Red Coot-footed T r in g a , Edw pi. 142.
REDrpif.
F ema l e .
C I Z E of the laft. Bill the fame : head, throat, hind part of D escrip tion.
the neck and back, fcapulars, and upper tail coverts, black,
with rufous margins : over the eyes a pale rufous ftreak : rump
white, fpotted with dulky ; the under part, from the throat,
dulky red : wings and tail as in the laft deferibed.
Thefe two birds are undoubtedly male and female-, and are P la c e anee
rare in England 3 their having once been Ihot in Torkfhire is' on M anners .
record. More common on the continent. Found in Sibiria, and
in the neighbourhood of the Cafpian' Sea-, alfo in Scandinavia.
Met with in Hudfon’s Bay -, and found by our circumnavigators
between AJia and America. Come into Greenland in. April, and
depart in September. Generally found in pairs; and are obferved-
while fwimming to be continually dipping their bills in the water
after infefts; for it cannot dive, nor fwim but very imperfeftly.
They come into Hudfon’s Bay the beginning of June, and lay four
eggs,