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on the 28th of November, 1860, as recorded in the 

 "Zoologist" for 1861 (p. 7316). 



It is remarkable, however, that a species so uncer- 

 tain in its movements, even when more plentiful than 

 it is now, should have appeared in unusual numbers, 

 on the same part of our coast, and in three successive 

 seasons, as shown by the various records in the " Zoolo- 

 gist" from 1846 to 1849. In that journal for 1846 

 (p. 1552), Mr. J. H. Gurney states that he received 

 during the 1st week of November a specimen of this 

 phalarope from Salthouse, which he believed to be the 

 fourth procured in that neighbourhood during that 

 autumn; adding that the last Norfolk specimen he 

 had seen was killed several years before at the adjoin- 

 ing parish of Weyborne, by the late Sir T. F. Buxton, 

 who described it as " swimming like a duck" when first 

 noticed. Probably one in Mr. Do well's collection, shot 

 at Salthouse, as early as the 21st of July in that year, 

 is one of the four thus mentioned. In the " Zoologist " 

 for 1847 (p. 1955), Messrs. Gurney and Fisher remark, 

 "we have seen four specimens of the red-necked 

 phalarope, which were killed at or near Salthouse 

 during the month of September. Two of these, which 

 were killed in the beginning of the month, retained 

 much of the summer plumage ; in the other two, which 

 occurred about the end of the month, it had almost 

 entirely disappeared." Of these Mr. Dowell has one 

 in winter plumage. According to the same authors, also, 

 a single bird of this species was killed at Weyborne on 

 the 3rd of October, 1847 (" Zoologist," 1848, p. 1965) ; 

 and on the 26th and 30th of September, 1848, two 

 specimens were procured at Waxham, near Yarmouth, 

 as recorded in the "Zoologist" for 1849 (p. 2353). Of 

 those above enumerated, three specimens are in Mr. 

 Gurney's collection, and a pair, I believe, in Mr. Upcher's 

 possession at Sheringham Hall. The partiality of this 

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