RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 443 
some degree account for its extreme scarcity during 
the last ten years, on the 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 nests 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. Keulemang, as I 
am informed by Mr. J. EH. 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. 
