LIMICOL^E. 



RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 315 



SCOLOPACIDjE. 



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PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Linnaeus*). 

 THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. 



THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE is at once distinguished 

 from the Grey Phalarope last described, by its smaller size, 

 with a longer and more slender beak, and it presents 

 much less seasonal variation in its plumage, f It is both 

 more irregular, and less abundant on its visits, which are 

 principally in the autumn, and rarely on the spring migra- 

 tion. It has been observed in Sussex and Surrey ; in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, according to Mr. Stevenson, only about twenty 

 times in as many years ; in the Humber district seldom, 

 the latest record being that of three in the autumn of 1881 

 (Rep. Migr. Com. 1882, p. 32) ; and also on the Yorkshire 

 coast ; and very rarely in Northumberland. Sometimes its 

 erratic course takes it inland, and on the 6th July, 1843, an 



* Tringa hyperborca, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 249 (1766). 



f Owing to the shape of its bill, it has been made the type of a genus, Lobipes, 

 in association with the only other member of the group, L. wilsoni, and the 

 latter again has been given a genue, Steganopus, to itself. 



