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of Beverley, who was informed by Miss Hall, in a letter dated 

 25th July 1881, that they were shot by Lord Hotham's keeper 

 " about thirty years ago." Mr. Stephenson knew a woman 

 who lived at Aike, and who remembered the birds being killed 

 and shewn to her on account of their long legs. 



The third specimen was procured at Kilnsea, near Spurn, 

 many years ago, by the late John Clubley, who described the 

 bird to Mr. F. Boyes so accurately as to leave no doubt as to 

 its identity. He did not know the date, but it was in late 

 spring. 



GREY PHALAROPE. 

 Phalaropus fulicarius (.). 



Occasional visitant in autumn and winter, of rare and uncertain 

 occurrence. 



This interesting species was first made known as a British 

 bird from an example which was killed at Warley Clough, 

 near Halifax, by Thomas Bolton, and sent to George 

 Edwards, who described it in the " Philosophical Trans- 

 actions," and afterwards figured it in his " Gleanings of 

 Natural History " (1743-76, pi. ii. p. 206, iii. pi. 308), with 

 the following observations : 



" This Tringa I believe had not been figured or described 

 before it appeared in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' vol. i. 

 pi. i. p. 255, for the year 1757. [The species is minutely de- 

 scribed in the work referred to.] It was procured for 



me by my obliging friend, Mr. Thomas Bolton, florist, of 

 Warley Clough in Yorkshire, near which place it was shot in 



January 1757 Mr. Bolton says in his letter, that when 



newly killed, it weighed one ounce." 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : 



Phalaropus lobatus. Grey Phalarope F. O. Morris reports them 

 as shot near Brignal, Scarborough, and Crimpsall not rarely ; H. Reid 

 informs me that a specimen was shot near Rossington Bridge in the 



