50 RESIDENTS AND MIQEANTS. 



it is said to be very common*; not so in Ireland, 

 where Mr. Thompson, speaking of the comparative 

 numbers of this species and the Dunlin, saysf , " In 

 Belfast and Strangford Loughs there are fully two 

 thousand Dunlins to a single Sanderling ; and on the 

 coast of Ireland generally there may probably be one 

 thousand of the former to each individual of the 

 latter species." In The Field ' of June 24th, 1871, 

 will be found a note by Dr. Bree on the supposed 

 nesting of the Sanderling in Ireland. 



GEEY PHALAEOPE. Phalaropusfulicarius(IArm&us). 



An annual autumn migrant. No instance of its 

 occurring in England in the red plumage peculiar to 

 the breeding-season is known to me, although it oc- 

 casionally happens that specimens obtained here in 

 autumn have a very few of the red feathers still 

 showing through the winter dress. 



EED-NECKED PHALAEOPE. Phalaropus hyperloreus 

 (Linneeus). 



Breeds in Perthshire, Inverness, Sutherland, and 

 the Hebrides, formerly also in Orkney. It is an oc- 

 casional winter visitant to England, and is unknown 

 in Ireland. 



WOODCOCK. Scolopax rusticola, Linnaeus. 



A regular winter visitant ; but many pairs annually 

 remain to nest in suitable localities. 



* Gray, < Birds of the West of Scotland,' p. 261. 

 t Nat. Hist. Ireland (Birds), vol. ii. p. 122. 



