. Birds of Britain . it resembles the Eed-necked Phalarope, but itsbreeding range is more northerly, and is in fact is extremely tame, and allows a close approach as itswims in shallow sheltered places a few feet from themargin of the shore, beach pools, or inland ponds, where itliappens to be. Its visits to this country are almost always in autumn,when it is in the grey plumage, which is grey on the backand white beneath, with a white forehead and a black streakrunning backwards through the eye. Bill black. Thesexes are alike and the young similar but huffish on thechest. A few
. Birds of Britain . it resembles the Eed-necked Phalarope, but itsbreeding range is more northerly, and is in fact is extremely tame, and allows a close approach as itswims in shallow sheltered places a few feet from themargin of the shore, beach pools, or inland ponds, where itliappens to be. Its visits to this country are almost always in autumn,when it is in the grey plumage, which is grey on the backand white beneath, with a white forehead and a black streakrunning backwards through the eye. Bill black. Thesexes are alike and the young similar but huffish on thechest. A few solitary examples are sometimes seen in nuptialdress during the spring or very early autumn. In thisplumage the head and back are black, with rufous marginsto the feathers ; cheeks white; under parts chestnut. Billyellow. The male is rather duller in plumage than thefemale. Length 82 5 in.; wing 4*9 in. 3H GREY PHALAROPE Phalaropus fulicarius (left) RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Phalaropus hyperboreiis(right) Both in winter. The Red-Necked Phalarope THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linnseus) The Phalaropes are delightful little birds of very aquatichabits, and form a splendid instance of how similarenvironment tends to the production of similar may be easily recognised from other limicoline orwading birds by their very close feathering, especially onthe breast, and their lobed feet, while in the Grey Phalarope,especially, the bill is somewhat flattened, so that in thesebirds we find a tendency towards the flattened bill as inDucks, lobed feet as in the Grebes, and the peculiar thickfeathers on the breast characteristic of Petrels and Phalaropes have also another peculiarity unique amongBritish birds, although shared by several other groups indifferent parts of the world, namely that the duties ofincubation and rearing of the young are conducted entirelyby the male bird, and in correlation with this habit thefemale does all the courting and is br
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