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of houses on the KingVroad and on Brunswick- 

 terrace. 



MOORHEN, Gallinula chloropus. Common on 

 the banks of rivers, brooks and ditches. 



COMMON COOT, Fulica atra. Not so generally 

 distributed as the last species, but numerous on 

 many large ponds whose banks are furnished with 

 reeds and sedges. 



Family LOBIPEDID^. 



GREY PHALAROPE, Phalaropus lobatus. Has 

 been occasionally obtained in the spring in the 

 red plumage peculiar to the breeding-season but 

 more frequently during the autumn when return- 

 ing to the continent from its northern summer 

 quarters. During September, 1846, after a severe 

 gale from the south-west which lasted for some 

 days, great numbers of grey phalaropes suddenly 

 appeared on various parts of the coast of Sussex : 

 many were shot, others taken in a dying state, and 

 some killed with stones as they were swimming 

 among the breakers near the shore. They ap- 

 peared almost simultaneously at Pagham, Wor- 

 thing, Shoreham, Newhaven, and Hastings. By 

 far the greater number of these phalaropes were 

 birds of the year. 



RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, Phalaropus hyperbo- 

 reus. A very rare straggler from the North. A 



