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ground on the upper parts, each tuft of down being 

 fringed with light buff, and also streaked with black, 

 which latter is most pronounced on the flanks ; the 

 throat is black, tipped with grey, and the lower 

 parts are white. A nestling Oystercatcher, caught 

 on July 5th, still retains a good deal of greyish- 

 black down, especially about the tail, head, and 

 throat. The upper parts are black, the coverts 

 overhanging the white wing-bar being fringed with 

 buff, though the actual tips are dark grey. The 

 margin of the black gorget is huffish, the feathers 

 being slightly tipped with grey. In this bird the 

 base of the mandibles is orange-red, the extremity 

 being black ; but, in the downy nestling of June 16, 

 the mandibles are dark green, yellow at the base. 

 The tarsi of the downy bird are greyish above, 

 brownish-yellow beneath ; but in the older nestling 

 (in life) the tarsi and toes are grey. In both 

 nestlings, the irides are dark hazel, which appears 

 to change to crimson during the first winter. 



Family SCOLOPACIDvE. 

 Genus PHALAROPUS. 



P. Hyperhoreus. Red-necked Phalerope. 



The Red-necked Phalerope is a rare casual 

 visitant, hitherto only detected in Cumberland upon 

 the Solway. 



An immature bird was shot on Rockliffe Marsh, 

 September 23rd, 1879 ; an adult, in summer plumage, 

 was shot in the spring of the year by Mr. T. Mann, 



