218 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



GEEY PHALAEOPE. 



Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). 



Seen on the coast when migrating in spring and 

 autumn, and occasionally also inland. The late Dr. 

 Garstang of Clitheroe had a specimen, shot on the 

 Rihble near that to^Yn, in 1837, about Christmas. 



GENUS SCOLOPAX. 



WOODCOCK. 



ScoLOPAX RUSTiGULA, Liimaeus. 



It is now a well-ascertained fact that the Woodcock 

 breeds regularly in many parts of North Lancashire, 

 but it is best known as a migrant in autumn ; appearing 

 towards the end of October or beginning of November, 

 and being then everywhere generally dispersed in 

 suitably wooded localities. It remains throughout the 

 winter, and the greater part leaves in March or April, 

 the remainder then setting about nesting operations. 

 Mr. W. A. Durnford {ZooL, 1876) says it is very plentiful 

 in the thick coppices to the north of Barrow, where, 

 young birds having been many times seen, he fancies it 

 breeds in some numbers, and Mr. E. T. Baldwin {ZooL, 

 1878) does not consider its nesting in the Furness 

 district generally at all exceptional. It has been known 

 to rear its young in Cartmel, and near Silverdale ; and, 

 coming further south, Mr. Pi. Standen tells me he has 

 an egg taken in Bleasdale Forest in 1872, where also 

 Mr. Louis H. Simpson has known it often to breed. 



