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species, as well as the grey phalarope, for the brackish 
waters on Salthouse beach and the adjacent marshes, 
is singularly marked in the above instances, all but one 
having been obtained on that particular point of the 
coast. About Yarmouth, even as far back as 1834, they 
were described by Messrs. Paget as “very rare,” although 
Mr. Miller possessed a pair—one in winter and one in 
summer plumage—the former possibly the same men- 
tioned in Sir William Hooker’s MS. notes as killed on 
Breydon in the winter of 1824, but this species is not 
mentioned by Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear. I have 
never been able to secure a recent example of this phala- 
rope for my own collection, but I lately purchased a 
stuffed specimen which was shot at Scoulton Mere, in 
August 1829, the only occurrence in that month with 
which I am acquainted. 
From the above dates, then, both of the earlier and 
more recent examples, it appears that the autumnal 
migration of this phalarope, like that of the more 
numerous species, occurs most commonly in the months 
of September, October, and November; there is no 
record of its appearance either in December or January. 
It would seem, however, from the bird killed at Yar- 
mouth, in May, 1867, that this species, occasionally 
at least, adopts the same route in spring, on its passage 
northward, as on its southward migration; yet in the 
case of Mr. Dowell’s bird, killed on the 21st of July, 
it is difficult to say what direction it was pursuing at 
the time, as in Dunn’s “ Ornithologist’s Guide to 
Orkney and Shetland,” the red-necked phalarope is 
said to arrive in the Orkneys in July and to breed 
there in August. At least such was the case in 1837; 
but, according to the same authority, as quoted by Mr. 
More in his “ Distribution of Birds in Great Britain 
during the nesting season” (“ Ibis,” 1865, p. 439), it is 
no longer found in the Orkneys, a fact which may in 
