436 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
have never either seen or heard of one killed in this 
county, but a curious example having the whole plumage 
white, except the head and tail, is stated by Messrs. 
Sheppard and Whitear to have been seen on the Stour, 
in 1825. 
PHALAROPUS LOBATUS, (Linneus). 
GREY PHALAROPE. 
The Grey Phalarope, so termed from the prevailing 
tints of its winter plumage may, I have no doubt, be 
reckoned amongst our regular autumnal visitants, since 
scarcely a year passes but one or more specimens are 
recorded as either seen or procured; and although my 
notes from 1850 to the present time exhibit two or three 
exceptions to the general rule, these are owing, I believe, 
rather to a deficiency of information than the total 
absence of the species. By Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, 
in 1846, this bird was also described as visiting us “ oc- 
casionally, but much less frequently,” on its passage 
northward in spring, but though such may have been 
its former habit, I know of no single instance within 
the last thirty years of its appearing otherwise than at 
the close of the year. Of thirty specimens killed to my 
knowledge in various parts of Norfolk, during the last 
twenty years, two only have appeared as early as the 
month of September, fifteen in October, eight in Novem- 
ber, four in December, and one in January, from which 
a pretty accurate idea may be formed of the ordinary 
date of their southward migration. Both the excep- 
tional instances in the month of September, occurred 
in 1866, when an almost unprecedented number were 
killed in different parts of England, especially in the 
