GREY PHALAROPE. 20 
~T 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. 
HIMANTOPUS CANDIDUS, Bonnaterre. 
An example of this rare straggler, an adult male, 
was obtained on the Mersey at Latchford by Mr. R. 
Nunnerley, senior. He shot this bird and other rarities, 
in the county about forty or fifty years ago, but un- 
fortunately the exact dates of the occurrences have not 
been preserved. Mr. R. Nunnerley of Congleton, a 
keen sportsman and collector himself, in whose posses- 
sion the birds are now, vouches for the localities, having 
heard his father frequently recount the circumstances 
of their capture. 
GREY PHALAROPE. 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (Linnzus). 
The Grey Phalarope is an irregular autumn visitor 
to Cheshire. Examples have occurred far inland, but 
the bird has been obtained most frequently on the 
coast. It exhibits a strange absence of fear of man, 
and its indifference to his presence often leads to its 
destruction. 
Dr. Dobie informs us that Captain Congreve has 
a water-colour sketch of a Grey Phalarope, marked 
‘Burton, October 4th, 1853’ At a meeting of the 
Manchester Natural History Club, held on September 
28th, 1863, the late Dr. T. Alcock exhibited a specimen 
which had been shot on the Mersey, and a communi- 
cation was made to the effect that another had been 
