p. H. BAHR : RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 20;^ 



At one end of the loch the former condition held sway, 

 two energetic and quarrelsome females having- attached 

 themselves to one miserable-looking- male, and it was 

 ludicrous to behold the awe in which he held them. Once 

 in particular he nearly swam between my legs in his efforts 

 to avoid their attentions. Till our departure on the 27th 





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Fia. 1.— "Two males were continuously circling round the head of 



female." 



these three birds were constantly to be seen together. 

 At the other end of the loch two males were seen con- 

 tinuously circling round the head of a female, as I have 

 attempted to show in Fig. I. This "marriage flight" we 



