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when at Crookhurst. The Grey Phalerope is an 

 active bird and can swim well. Its flight is not 

 unlike that of the Common Sandpiper. The call- 

 note is a peculiar twittering whistle. Any that I 

 have seen were very tame, and if disturbed from 

 the water, generally took a short flight and again 

 alighted near the same place." 



The only bird we have ourselves examined in 

 full winter plumage, is a bird in Mr. Batey's collec- 

 tion, shot at Millom in December, 1876. The Grey 

 Phalerope has only twice occurred in spring. An 

 example was found dead at Cargo, in March, 1853, 

 and this bird is preserved in Carlisle. In 1881, 

 a pair of Grey Phaleropes were observed by 

 Mr. H. P. Senhouse at Cockermouth, on April 13th. 

 Far inland, a Grey Phalerope was shot on Park 

 Fell, near Alston, on October 28th, 1843, and 

 another was killed on Derwentwater lake during the 

 last week of September, 1885 [Capt. Dover, in lit.)f 



Genus SCOLOPAX. 



S. Rusticula. Woodcock. 



The Woodcock is a local resident, nesting in a 

 good many localities throughout the county ; but 

 more strongly established in the north than in the 

 south or west. The nesting of the Woodcock in 

 Cumberland is a modern feature ; for though the 

 occasional presence of the Woodcock in Cumber- 

 land during the summer was ascertained by Mr. 



+ During the visitation of 1866, a Grey Phalerope was killed in Cumber- 

 land on the early date of August 24th, three others being shot at Allonby in 

 September (/. H. Ourney, jun., "Grey Phalerope," p. 20). 



