to^AnnifiaV: rttiy fignrftj which represents of the natural size a
b«augfk femaleUn. the pérfect plumage of spring, This individual
was .niné 'and . a rbalf fa elite s .long- and sixteen in. extent of
wings. Th£^fe^rt*of the bili we have described above: i-t is
black, and. more-than an inch and' a quarter long, though only a
like' in thickness: the irides are dark brown. The upper part of
the head is of a bluish delicate pale ash colour, the hind head and
that' paart 0 th e ‘fi®nkv!djoitifa^ it are whitish a- wfat© vsfalp®
passes o v e r - i è h f : ^and beneath It .is- a spot,of the- same ooloT :•
a large o&rvfasg.;band. of black includes the eye and spreads out
towards the nucha, descending -a good space down the neck, and
gradually passes into a reddish-browny which becomes the color
r f th e sidesidfe^e neek > this tint deepens into bright chsestnut on
the back -part éf the neck, and descends on each- side, thus min-
gling with th# plumage of the bach andsGapulars, which are .dark
asfa.eaeh featheife shghdy- tipped with whitish irtkg upper tail-
coverts are ash color, ®hé throat and- sides of the head t® the
biaek' mark, and all betoeath, including the lower tail-coverts, are
pare .white, somewhat tinged with rufous On the lower -part of the
neck; beneath. The wings are' five inches long, and in color dark
1&jgk, T^Qffjii»i~!ri'''ni<t and Secondaries very slightly edged witl^
whit©,-; under Coverts white, most of > -the smaller wing-coverts
being ruarked with ferruginous: the* upper tail feathers are
tinged wtoh^eddish at their tips, and the under marked with
• white on their inner webs. The feet are dark plumbeous ; the
claws óf a dark -horn color» the naked part of the tibia is nearly
an inch, fang, the fa rm s -mOr® than one inch and a quarter,
• and sharpish; the middle toe without the nail is scarcely ohe
inch, and the remarkably long hind toe five sixteenths without
the iypl-
There are fewer variations caused in this Phalarope than in the
others by sex and season: the young however is surprisingly different;
for which reason rW#jhav© figured! it also f f th.e full size.
The. bill i* like that of ,th,e adulfesdmewhat gaping beyond the •
middle : the face is whdish mged with: «dusky,; and with a dusky
stripe from the «idM to the /ev J^fthe. crown, -fleck abtee, back and *
wings are dusky broW% darker on the middle-1 df fthe feathers^
the rushsp- upper- tail*e,©f#yts and flanks Ifaoadly are white; the.
throat is pure White : the '4d.es- of the neck are tinged with rusty :
the neck beneath and breast- are S u i f slightly tinged with reddish
dusky; the belly of a purer white with'a little dusky; th,e;
vent, andlong lower tail-coverts, which reach to the tip of the tail,
are pure white: the wings are four and three quarter inches long,
the•; lower ©ov.&^Js whit,©!. The scapulars blacker, with -pale
rusty edges : the primaries are blackish, with pale- brown shafts,'
of which the outer is white, 'The tail is broad afid rounded, the
middle and outer feathers somewhat longest; all of a pale dusk.y
gray with white shafts, the exterior being also whit© on the best-
part of the-inner web. All the tail-feathers are'also edged with
white. The feet ire raaddish black, the tarsus'an inch and a'
quarter long.
We are acquainted as yet with no peculiarity of this fine" Phalarope,
and even the few facts registered- concerning it have been
obscured- by the heedlessness of compilers, Though it appears
to extend its migrations more to the' south than its congeneric
species, it is decidedly like them, (notwithstanding Temminck’s
supposition to the contrary) an Arctic bird, and the only remarkable
circumstance about it is that it should not also be f^und -in
Europe. As far as we know it Korth American,
for the specimen of the young inadvertently said by the authors
of the Ornithological Illustrations to have come from; South Ame-
-r ica, was found in the Vera Cruz market, as appears from their