RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 



RED-NECKED COOT-FOOTRED-NECKED LOBE-FOOT. 



PLATE CLXXXI I. FIGURE II. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, . . . LINNJEUS. 

 Lobipes hyperboreus, .... MACGILLIVRAY. 



THESE birds now breed only in the Shetland Islands and 

 the Hebrides. They are late in laying, only one or two 

 eggs having been found laid by nearly the middle of June. 

 It appears that the male bird assists the female in the task 

 of incubation. 



The nest is placed in a hollow on a small hillock, or in a 

 tuft of grass by the edge of the water, and is deep in shape ; 

 the material of which it is formed is dry grass. Both parents 

 are much attached to their offspring. Several nests are 

 frequently placed in the same neighbourhood. 



The eggs appear to be four in number, and of a dull olive- 

 green colour, a good deal blotted with black brown or dusky. 

 The young leave the nest soon after being hatched. 



VOL. III. 



