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whilst swimming in a small pond near Allonby ; a 

 third was shot on the Solway by G. Dawson ; we 

 observed a fourth at the point of Skinburness, 

 September 8th, 1884, the under surface of the wings 

 exhibiting in flight a silvery appearance, t 



P. Fulicarius. Grey Phalerope. 



The Grey Phalerope is a rare casual visitant 

 on autumnal migration, and has been detected at 

 different points of the Cumbrian coast in between 

 twenty and thirty instances. Of these, a single 

 bird was shot near Workington in the autumn of 

 1884 ; and we observed another near Beckfoot on 

 October 8th, 1885, though we failed, accidentally, to 

 secure the bird. At the same time, we received a 

 fine example in the flesh, shot on the Sussex coast 

 on October 6th. 



Mr. R. Mann, from his long residence in imme- 

 diate proximity to the Solway, has been singularly 

 fortunate in meeting with the Grey Phalerope. 

 " Three Grey Phaleropes," he writes, " were once 

 sent to my brother together to be stufled, and the 

 man who sent them, says that he shot the three at 

 one shot from a flock of six. Another was sent 

 which was killed in a stream near Dubmill, and I 

 have also seen one or two more which had been 

 killed in the neighbourhood. I have myself seen 

 several Grey Phaleropes at different times. Once I 

 saw two together in Mealsbeck, a little west of 

 Allonby, and I have also seen an odd one or two 



+ Another Red-necked Phalerope was shot on a pool at Kirkbride, 

 October 20th, 1885. 



