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therefore, the Carolina Crake must rank in the 

 already long list of rare and accidental stragglers to 

 Great Britain. 



Family LOBIPEDID^E. 



GREY PHALAROPE (Phalaropus lobatus). This 

 little Lobe-foot, which has been aptly compared to a 

 miniature Teal, makes its appearance on the British 

 coast almost every year, when journeying southwards 

 on its autumnal migration. In the time of Pennant 

 it was hardly known, but of late years it has occurred 

 much more frequently. In the autumn of 1866 there 

 was an extraordinarily large immigration of these 

 birds, no less than 2 50 specimens having been taken 

 in Sussex, 86 in Hampshire, and 64 in Devonshire, 

 besides many others in various counties. Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun. has published an interesting pamphlet 

 in which he enumerates the localities visited in that 

 year by this species, and, so far as could be ascer- 

 tained, the number of captures, with the particulars of 

 each* 



One was killed at Shinfield, Berkshire, in March, 

 1794, as recorded by the Rev. F. O. Morris. The 

 Rev. Charles Wolley informs me that, in December, 

 1851, a Grey Phalarope was shot on the Thames 

 while disporting itself under the Great Western 



* "A Summary of the Occurrences of the Grey Phalarope in Great 

 Britain in 1866." London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 



