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species, as well as the grey phalarope, for the brackish 

 waters on Salthouse beach and the adjacent marshes, 

 is singularly marked in the above instances, all but one 

 having been obtained on that particular point of the 

 coast. About Yarmouth, even as far back as 1834, they 

 were described by Messrs. Paget as "very rare," although 

 Mr. Miller possessed a pair one in winter and one in 

 summer plumage the former possibly the same men- 

 tioned in Sir William Hooker's MS. notes as killed on 

 Breydon in the winter of 1824, but this species is not 

 mentioned by Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear. I have 

 never been able to secure a recent example of this phala- 

 rope for my own collection, but I lately purchased a 

 stuffed specimen which was shot at Scoulton Mere, in 

 August 1829, the only occurrence in that month with 

 which I am acquainted. 



From the above dates, then, both of the earlier and 

 more recent examples, it appears that the autumnal 

 migration of this phalarope, like that of the more 

 numerous species, occurs most commonly in the months 

 of September, October, and November; there is no 

 record of its appearance either in December or January. 

 It would seem, however, from the bird killed at Yar- 

 mouth, in May, 1867, that this species, occasionally 

 at least, adopts the same route in spring, on its passage 

 northward, as on its southward migration; yet in the 

 case of Mr. Dowell's bird, killed on the 21st of July, 

 it is difficult to say what direction it was pursuing at 

 the time, as in Dunn's " Ornithologist's Guide to 

 Orkney and Shetland," the red-necked phalarope is 

 said to arrive in the Orkneys in July and to breed 

 there in August. At least such was the case in 1837 ; 

 but, according to the same authority, as quoted by Mr. 

 More in his " Distribution of Birds in Great Britain 

 during the nesting season" ("Ibis," 1865, p. 439), it is 

 no longer found in the Orkneys, a fact which may in 



