210 CHARADKIID.E. 



Islands, across Bering sea to Alaska and thence to Greenland. 

 In winter it visits the coasts and inland waters of Europe to 

 the Mediterranean ; also Japan, China, and South America, 

 south to the Falkland Islands. It is accidental in north- 

 west Africa, India, and New Zealand. 



Phalaropus lobatus. RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Tringa lobata Linnaws, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 148 : 

 Hudson Bay. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 164; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 698; 

 Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 567. 



Lobatus = lobed (referring to the lobed membrane of the toes). 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor, 

 breeding in small colonies in the Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands, the Outer Hebrides, and in the west of Ireland. 

 Also an irregular Bird of Passage chiefly met with in autumn 

 and occasionally in winter and spring ; most frequent on 

 the east and south coasts of England, but uncommon else- 

 where in Great Britain and very rare in Ireland except at 

 its breeding-grounds. Its apparent avoidance of the greater 

 part of our coasts on its way to and from its summer haunts 

 is remarkable. 



General Distribution. The Red-necked Phalarope breeds 

 in the northern parts of the northern Hemisphere, in 

 the south from Iceland, the Faeroes, and Scandinavia: to 

 Vaigach and Dolgoi Islands and across Russia and Siberia 

 to Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk ; also in North 

 America from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, east to 

 south Greenland, and southwards across Canada to Ungava. 

 In winter it visits central Europe and the basin of the 

 Mediterranean, the coasts of Arabia, south-western Asia 

 and India, China, Japan and the Malay Archipelago to the 

 Moluccas and Aru Islands ; also the Bermudas and Central 

 America. It is accidental in the Hawaiian Islands. 



