198 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



Railway Bridge, Windsor, by a man named Hall, 

 who preserved it. Out of the flocks which visited 

 England in the autumn of 1866, a single specimen 

 only seems to have occurred in Buckinghamshire. 

 This bird was seen on the canal at Halton. On the 

 19th of September, 1866, Mr. Gurney states that a 

 Grey Phalarope was shot by a fisherman on an 

 eyot of the Thames between Pangbourne in Berk- 

 shire, and Whitchurch in Oxfordshire. Its beak 

 was full of small flies and gnats. Miss Flockton, the 

 possessor of this specimen, told Mr. Gurney that it 

 was an old female bird, in that state of plumage 

 intermediate between the winter and summer dress. 



Mr. Gould identified a bird as a Grey Phalarope 

 which had been observed by a man named Henry 

 Wilder on the river near Maidenhead, in the autumn 

 of 1867. It was swimming on the water, and he 

 struck at it with his oar, but the bird, although much 

 exhausted, managed to escape. 



