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at Winchelsea, in Sussex, May 19th, 1901, by the 
canal in front of Major Stileman’s house there. A 
boy named Masters was with the dog, and the bird 
was brought to Bristow’s to be preserved. ‘It was 
presented in 1908 by Mr. J. Eardley Hall. 
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE.—(NEst anp Ec6s). 
Case 349. 
This species nests in but few localities in Great 
Britain. Elsewhere they breed only within or very 
near the Arctic circle. The pair in the case were 
obtained in the Outer Hebrides at one shot on June 
22nd, 1898, as they played on the shallow loch close 
to which they nested. The tuft of grass containing 
the nest was obtained a few days earlier. 
These birds were shot and presented by Mr. 
A. F. Griffith. 
GREY PHALAROPE.—(Summer anp Autumn). 
Case 350. 
This Phalarope in its bright ruddy summer 
plumage seems scarcely to claim kindred with the 
equally beautiful but less striking grey and white 
winter bird. This bright ruddy colour is lost 
almost as soon as the birds leave the high Arctic 
latitudes in which they nest. 
The three specimens to the left of the case 
shew the summer plumage in three stages. The 
bird standing en the shingle is in its full nesting 
plumage, in which state it has very rarely been 
obtained in Britain, Our bird is an adult female 
shot May 5th, 1906, at Dungeness, by Fisher, a 
10ng-shore man there. It was brought to Bristow, 
the St. Leonard’s naturalist, to be stuffed. He 
had a male and a second female both in full nesting 
plumage, and another about half-plumaged, brought 
to him at the same time. This bird was presented 
by Mr. D. Hack. 
