384 Lieut. C. B. Ticeliurst on the [Ibis, 



ReD-NKCKED PlIALAUOl'i:. 



One in th(> Polder hot Noorden '2^ Anonst ; Mr. Tra])p 

 informed ns lie li;id only met M'itli this species once bel'oro. 

 This bird had ])rol)nbly been driven in by the very strong 

 south-'svest wind on the 2r)th-27th. Davics records seeing 

 a Phahirope in spring in a pool at the south end of 

 the island, but does not say of whitdi species (' Field/ 

 23 October, 1909). 



Snipk. 



Odtl birds seen whenever we visited likely spots, such as 

 swampv dykes in the polders: no migration noted. "A 

 few seen, ap[)arently not breeding" (V.). "Breeds fairly 

 numerously " (D. & Ij.J.). '' Not known to breed on the 

 other islands " (L.J.). 



Jack Snipe. 



First noted 25 September ; but haunts were seldom 

 visited. " One or two stragglers seen in the sj)i'ing " (V.). 



Dunlin. 



Enormous tiocks on the sands by 25 August, and others 

 seen on the edges of the pools in the polders. Some of them, 

 at least, seemed to be luaiidy composed of :uhilt birds which 

 were still in breeding-plumage. Very numerous in Se])t- 

 eniber; additions to the numbers on the 19tli, 24<-h, 28th, and 

 29th, after which the numbers decreased again daily. On the 

 25th flocks were seen arriving on the island, coming high up 

 from the north-east. " Common ; not knowu to breed on 

 the island" (V.). ''Single pairs breed at the north einl " 

 (L.J.). According to Mr. Vaughan, Schinz's Sandpiper, 

 which is the small race of Dunlin, should be deleted from 

 the avifauna of Texcl, but Lciege-Juist expressly says that 

 this is the form which breeds there ; and, of coiu'se, that is 

 what one would expect, since the ty])e-locality is the 

 Island of Ixugen in the South Baltic, and British breeding 

 birds also belong to this race. I think, however, the vast 

 majority of migratory Dunlins on Texel belong to the typical 

 form T. aljjina aljj'ma. 



