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GREY PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus lobatus, PENNANT. BEWICK. 



" hyperboreu*, BEWICK. 



" platyrhynchus, GOULD. 



Tringa lobata, MONTAGU. 



Pkalaropus. Phalara Fringes. POMS A foot. Lobatus With lobes 

 to the feet. 



Tins very neat bird occurs, during its migration, in Denmark, 

 Norway, and Sweden, as also in France, Italy, Switzerland, 

 Holland, and Germany: it advances to Greenland. In America 

 it is well known in the United States, where as here, it occurs 

 in the spring and autumn, on its way to or from the Arctic 

 regions. In Asia it is plentiful in Siberia, and among the lakes 

 in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea. 



The Grey Phalarope breeds in some of the Orkney Islands 

 in North Ronaldshay and Sanday; it was first observed there 

 by Dr. Neill, in the year 1804, who obtained several specimens 

 in Papa Westray; also further north in Iceland, as also occa- 

 sionally in Norway and Sweden. In America it has been met 

 with at Melville Island and the North Georgian Islands. 



In Yorkshire it has occurred occasionally at Scarborough; 

 one at Brignall; one at Rossington, near Doncaster, in the 

 year 1836, in summer plumage; one near Barnsley, in 1835; 

 one taken near York, and another caught by a party of poachers 

 near Bolton-upon-Dearne. In Norfolk, one or two occur every 

 autumn, in the months of October or November, and again 

 in the spring as they retrace their way; eight or nine were 

 obtained in the winter of 1828; one, out of a flock of four, 

 on a mere near Wretham Hall, by the gamekeeper of W. Birch, 

 Esq.; four near Salthouse, in September, 1847; one near 



