88 THE BIRDS OF DORSET: 



Pike shot two just outside the Wareham River, swim- 

 ming in , shallow water. He considers this bird to 

 be an annual visitor in autumn. A correspondent 

 writing in the Field of October 24, 1885, states that 

 he killed two Grey Phalaropes at Wareham not long 

 before, and was much surprised at their extraordinary 

 fearlessness. It was with the greatest difficulty he 

 could get them to rise when swimming on some 

 shallow water about twenty yards from him. One 

 in the County Museum was killed at Glanville's 

 Wootton, sixteen miles from the sea (J. C. Dale). 



RED-NECKED PHALAKOPE. Plialaropus liyperloreus, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 315; Harting, p. 50; Dresser, vii. p. 597; See- 

 bohm, iii. p. 89; Ibis List, p. 164. 



In Dorsetshire the Red-necked Phalarope is of 

 much rarer occurrence than the grey species, which 

 is rather curious, for the former breeds annually in 

 parts of Scotland and the Isles, and the latter does 

 not. On one occasion at least, namely, in the autumn 

 of 1847, the two species were found in company, 

 when two Red-necked Phalaropes were killed at 

 Lodmoor, near Weymouth, out of a flock of Grey 

 Phalaropes consisting of several hundred birds (W. 

 Thompson). It is not unlikely that in the autumn 

 of 1866, when so many Grey Phalaropes were met 

 with, there may have been some of the present 

 species among them, escaping notice from the simi- 

 larity of the winter plumage. 



