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THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus hyperp.(')Reus (Linnceus). 



The visits of the Red-necked Phalarope to England are even 

 more irregular than those of the preceding species, and although 

 the bird has become more frequent in Norfolk since 1870, it is at 

 all times less numerically abundant, and seldom wanders far inland ; 

 its occurrence being chiefly on the autumn migration. Along the 

 east side of Scotland it is decidedly rare, nor is it at all common on 

 the west ; although a few pairs — the remnant of many^ — still nest in 

 the Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities which are 

 protected from — or undiscovered by — the trading collector. The 

 arrival from the south takes place in the latter part of May, and by 

 August both old and young have departed. In Ireland, strange to 

 say, the bird has not yet been observed ; and altogether the manner 

 in which it avoids the greater part of the British Islands on its 

 passage to and from its summer haunts is somewhat remarkable. 



This species breeds in the Faroes, Iceland, the south of Green- 

 land, Northern Scandinavia and above the forest-growth on the 

 Dovrefjeld, in Novaya Zemlya, Siberia to Bering Sea, Kamschatka, 

 and on the high ground by the Sea of Okhotsk. In Alaska and 

 throughout the Arctic regions of America it is very abundant, and 

 there again it nests by some of the lakes in the mountain ranges, as 

 well as on the flat coast ; while in winter or on i)assage it has been 

 found down to the Bermudas in the Atlantic and even to Chili in 

 the South Pacific. In the Old World its migrations extend to the 

 Indo-Malayan region, China and Japan, its line through Central Asia 

 crossing the Pamir range. Unlike its congener, it avails itself of the 



