RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 441 
on the 28th of November, 1860, as recorded in the 
* Zoologist ” for 1861 (p. 7316). 
It is remarkable, however, that a species so uncer- 
tain in its movements, even when more plentiful than 
it is now, should have appeared in unusual numbers, 
on the same part of our coast, and in three successive 
seasons, as shown by the various records in the “ Zoolo- 
gist” from 1846 to 1849. In that journal for 1846 
(p. 1552), Mr. J. H. Gurney states that he received 
during the Ist week of November a specimen of this 
phalarope from Salthouse, which he believed to be the 
fourth procured in that neighbourhood during that 
autumn; adding that the last Norfolk specimen he 
had seen was killed several years before at the adjoin- 
ing parish of Weyborne, by the late Sir T. F. Buxton, 
who described it as “swimming like a duck’ when first 
noticed. Probably one in Mr. Dowell’s collection, shot 
at Salthouse, as early as the 21st of July in that year, 
is one of the four thus mentioned. In the “ Zoologist” 
for 1847 (p. 1955), Messrs. Gurney and Fisher remark, 
‘““we have seen four gpecimens of the red-necked 
phalarope, which were killed at or near Salthouse 
during the month of September. Two of these, which 
were killed in the beginning of the month, retained 
much of the summer plumage; in the other two, which 
occurred about the end of the month, it had almost 
entirely disappeared.” Of these Mr. Dowell has one 
in winter plumage. According to the same authors, also, 
a single bird of this species was killed at Weyborne on 
the 8rd of October, 1847 ( Zoologist,” 1848, p. 1965) ; 
and on the 26th and 30th of September, 1848, two 
specimens were procured at Waxham, near Yarmouth, 
as recorded in the “ Zoologist” for 1849 (p. 2353). Of 
those above enumerated, three specimens are in Mr. 
Gurney’s collection, and a pair, I believe, in Mr. Upcher’s 
possession at Sheringham Hall. The partiality of this 
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