PHALAROPE 391 



The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, 

 says : " This bird is rare ; Dr. F. Plomley has obtained 

 only one specimen." 



A young bird from the Isle of Grain, procured on Sep- 

 tember 26, which came from the Marquis of Tweedale's 

 collection, is in the British Museum. 



Mr. G. E. Power says : " On the 28th, 1871, I shot a 

 Red-necked Phalarope, a female and bird of the year. 

 When shot it was balancing itself on a reed in one of 

 the ' fleets ' at Rainham. My attention was called to 

 it by its note, which was well known to me. The 

 stomach was full of coleoptera." 



GREY PHALAROPE. 



PJialaropus falicavius (Linn^us). S.N.^ i., p. 249 



(1766). 



The Grey Phalarope is a rare autumn and winter 

 visitor to Kent, it keeps generally to the shore line, the 

 large sandy and mud-flats of the coast. 



Writing in 1844, the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett 

 states that it is " common in Romney Marsh in autumn." 



Morris, in his British Birds, says : " In Kent one was 

 shot swimming on the Thames at Swanscombe in the 

 autumn of 1845, and reported by Mr. M. C. Cooke." 



There is a Kentish specimen in the Maidstone Museum, 

 from Mr. G. Simmons. 



Mr. Charles Gordon, writing from Dover, November, 

 1870, says: "Three Grey Phalaropes were taken in the 

 Hythe Canal by Mr. F. Young, October, 1870." 



