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men in the Stackpole collection Mr. Dix speaks of as having 
been killed near Pembroke. Mr. C. Jefferys has informed us 
that an Avocet was shot near Tenby about the year 1883. We 
know of no other occurrences. Two Avocets in Col. Montagu’s 
collection, labelled “South Wales,” may have come from Pem- 
brokeshire, a county with which the Colonel appears to have 
been well acquainted. 
GREY PHALAROPE, Pralaropus fulicarius.—An autumn visitor. 
Our memory goes back to the time when the Grey Phalarope 
was regarded as a very rare bird, each occurrence being carefully 
chronicled. But for many years hardly an autumn has passed 
without this pretty species being detected on our coasts, and 
after severe gales great numbers are periodically intercepted on 
their migration southwards from the shores of Greenland, and 
driven into the English and Bristol Channels. Numbers are 
also seen along the Welsh shores fronting St. George’s Channel, 
and after an autumn gale we have heard of Phalaropes being 
plentiful at Aberystwyth. The birds are wonderfully tame, and 
quite fearless of man, and many suffer in consequence, being 
easily killed by stones cast at them. Alas ! that the pretty little 
tempest-tossed wanderers should receive so cruel a reception. 
Some are carried by the wind far inland, and occur at alk 
manner of unlooked-for places. We have a note of one that 
was shot on a pond in Letterston village, six or seven miles from 
the coast. Sir Hugh Owen has seen Grey Phalaropes at 
Goodwick. One was shot at Castle Martin in November, 
1886. One, obtained at Stackpole, is in the collection there. 
Grey Phalaropes have often occurred on Caldy Island, and at 
Tenby, and were numerous there in the autumn of 1891 ; others 
in the autumn of 1893. The Haverfordwest birdstuffer fre- 
quently receives them from the neighbourhood of Pembroke, 
St. David’s, &c., and had many sent to him in the autumn of 
1891. We have no instance of one having been obtained in 
the spring in the red nesting plumage. In fine weather the Grey 
Phalaropes pass our coasts at a considerable distance out at sea, 
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