50 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
it is said to be very common*; not so in Ireland, 
where Mr. Thompson, speaking of the comparative 
numbers of this species and the Dunlin, saysf, ‘ In 
Belfast and Strangford Loughs there are fully two 
thousand Dunlins to a single Sanderling; and on the 
coast of Ireland generally there may probably be one 
thousand of the former to each individual of the 
latter species.” In ‘The Field’ of June 24th, 1871, 
will be found a note by Dr. Bree on the supposed 
nesting of the Sanderling in Ireland. 
GREY PHALAROPE. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linneus). 
An annual autumn migrant. No instance of its 
occurring in England in the red plumage peculiar to 
the breeding-season is known to me, although it oc- 
casionally happens that specimens obtained here in 
autumn have a very few of the red feathers still 
showing through the winter dress. 
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Phalaropus hyperboreus 
(Linnezeus). 
Breeds in Perthshire, Inverness, Sutherland, and 
the Hebrides, formerly also in Orkney. It is an oc- 
casional winter visitant to England, and is unknown 
in Ireland. 
WOODCOCK. Scolopax rusticola, Linneus. 
A regular winter visitant ; but many pairs annually 
remain to nest in suitable localities. 
* Gray, ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ p. 261. 
+ Nat. Hist. Ireland (Birds), vol. ii. p. 122. 
