98 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



SHOVELLER.— (Immature.) 



Case 100. 



This case shows a male in the dingy phimage it 

 exhibits after the breeding season, and the young birds 

 in that stage when it is first possible to distinguish 

 the immature males from the females : the white and 

 red feathers on the breasts of the males just shewing 

 through their nestling plumage. 



The specimens in the case were shot on Hickling 

 Broad, in Norfolk, in the autumn of 1872. 



GREY PHALAROPE. 



Case 101. 



A few of these birds visit our coast every autumn. 

 After unusually severe gales, in September or October, 

 they are occasionally found in immense numbers. 

 Should the storm continue many days they seem to 

 suffer greatly from its effects, and scores may be seen 

 so exhausted that they allow themselves to be caught 

 by hand. 



In September, 18CG, a large flight appeared all 

 round the eastern and southern coasts. 



I was myself in the Higlilands at the time, and 

 obta'ned a single specimen in Glenlyon, in Perthshire, 

 at a distance of forty miles from the sea. 



In the middle of September, 1870, I observed a few 

 passing along the south coast; and after a heavy 

 south-east gale, about three weeks later, hundreds 

 were found in the neighbourhood of Brighton, and the 

 flight extended as far west as Plymouth. I picked up 

 nearly a dozen, one morning, so disabled by the storm 



