RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 443 



some degree account for its extreme scarcity during 

 tlie last ten years, on tlie Norfolk coast, as compared 

 with former days. It still breeds, however, according 

 to Mr. More, in a few scattered localities in the 

 counties of Perth, Inverness, Sutherland, and in the 

 Outer Hebrides ; and Mr. H. J. Elwes, I am told, found 

 it breeding in Benbecula, one of the Western Isles, and 

 took nesbs of four eggs each in the first week of June, 

 1868. 



With reference to the note at p. 440, on the recent 

 occurrence only, according to M. Crommelin, of this 

 species in Holland, I may add that Mr. Keulemans, as I 

 am informed by Mr. J. E. Harting, once shot a red- 

 necked phalarope, on the coast of Holland, in winter. 

 Temminck (" Man. d'Orn.," 1st ed., p. 458), undoubtedly 

 claimed it as an accidental straggler to Holland, but 

 if such had been the case, it is, at least, a singular fact, 

 as stated by M. Crommelin, that not a single example 

 should be found in any collection in that country. 



This species is subject to a considerable seasonal 

 change of plumage, though scarcely to the same extent 

 as the grey phalarope, and the female is larger in size, 

 and in summer brighter in colour, than the male. 



