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THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus hvperb6reus (Linnaeus). 



A few pairs of this graceful species — the remnant of many — still 

 nest in the Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities 

 which are protected from or undiscovered by the trading collector, 

 and these birds arrive from the south in the latter part of May ; 

 while by August both old and young have departed. Along the east 

 side of Scotland, however, this Phalarope is decidedly rare, and it 

 is uncommon on migration in the west. To England its visits, even 

 in autumn, are very irregular, though recorded, especially since 1870, 

 in Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, some 

 of the midland and most of the southern counties, occasionally in 

 Wales, and exceptionally along the north-west coast. Occurrences 

 in spring are unusual, and altogether the avoidance by this species ot 

 the greater part of the British Islands on its passage to and from its 

 summer haunts is somewhat remarkable. In Ireland a bird was 

 shot in CO. Armagh, about November 13th 1891. 



The Red-necked Phalarope breeds plentifully in the south of Green- 

 land, Iceland, the Faeroes, and above the forest-growth on the Dovre- 

 fjeld in Scandinavia as well as in the north, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia 

 up to lat. 73° as far east as Kamchatka, and on the high ground by 

 the Sea of Okhotsk. In Alaska and throughout the Arctic regions of 

 America it is very abundant, and there again it nests by some of the 

 lakes in the mountain ranges, as well as on the flat coast ; while in 

 winter or on passage it has been found down to the Bermudas and 

 Guatemala. In the Old World its migrations extend to the Indo- 



