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BED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



BED-XECKED COOT-FOOT. RED-NECKED LOBE-FOOT. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, PENXANT. 



" fulicarid, MONTAGU. 



Lobipes hi/perboreus, FLEMING. 



" hyperborea, SttLBY. 



Phalaropus. Phalara Fringes. Pous A foot. Hyperboreus Northern. 



THIS kindred species is even yet more elegant than the 

 preceding one. 



On the continent of Europe it occurs in France, Holland, 

 Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, Sweden and Norway, and 

 thence visits Russia, Lapland, the Ferroe Islands, Greenland, 

 and Iceland. In Asia it is assigned to Siberia, and the borders 

 of the Caspian Sea. In America it is stated to be well 

 known in the United States, but as least numerously met 

 with in their southern districts. Captain Sabine mentions his 

 finding them at the North Georgian Islands. It advances 

 northwards to the Arctic Regions. 



The earliest recorded occurrence of this bird as a British 

 one, was in the island of Stronsay, one of the Orkneys, in 

 the year 1769, as mentioned by Pennant. 



In 1803, eight others, six females and two males, were 

 found in Sanday and North Ronaldshay. They are said to 

 be more rare there than formerly. In Lincolnshire one was 

 taken near Louth, by the Rev. William Marsden, during the 

 winter of 1849-50; one also near that place the beginning 

 of November, 1849, as the Rev. R. P. Alington wrote me 

 word. In Surrey, it is said by Mr. Mansell to have occurred 

 near Godalming. In Oxfordshire, one was found in an 

 exhausted state on Shotover Hill, in. the winter of 1834. 



