204 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Forth, as they have been heard on calm nights erying as they 
passed over from W. to E., or from points N. of W. to points 8. 
of E.; and day-flights have often been observed passing here 
from N.N.W. towards S.S.E., or from N.W. to S.W. I would 
instance here Bramblings, Fringilla montifringilla, natives of 
Northern Europe. (See Gray’s ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ 
p. 137. The “column” of Bramblings there described as on 
migration were not “ proceeding in a north-easterly direction,” 
however, as stated by Mr. Gray, but were coming from a north- 
westerly direction, and were proceeding in a south-easterly 
direction.) 
NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE BRITISH 
POLAR EXPEDITION, 1875-6. 
By Henry CHIcHESTER Hart, 
Naturalist on Board H.M.S. ‘ Discovery.’ 
(Continued from p. 129.) 
SanDERLING.—Calidris arenaria.—On the 10th August, 1875, 
I saw six or seven Sanderlings near Walrus Island, in lat. 70° 25’. 
In Discovery Bay they were very rare. On the 1st June, on the 
27th July, and on the 12th August, 1876, single specimens were 
seen. On August 22nd I saw a few in Rawlings Bay, lat. 80° 22’; 
and on the 7th September I saw a few in the same locality, as 
on the 10th of the previous August. I was not able to obtain 
a nest of this species, though my colleague, Capt. Feilden, found 
one on June 24th, in lat. 82° 33’ N. (‘ Ibis,’ 1877, p.406). Dr. Cop- 
pinger thought Sanderlings were common, and breeding, in Polaris 
Bay. - 
RED-NECKED Puaxaropr, Phalaropus hyperboreus.—Upon the 
9th and 10th July I saw several pairs of this Phalarope at Blase 
Dalen Lake in Disco. They were breeding amongst sedges on 
its shores in company with the Lapland Bunting and the Long- 
tailed Duck. I watched them for some time; they are extremely 
graceful in their movements upon the water, and while swimming 
about in search of minute aquatic insects were quite fearless, 
coming to within a foot or two of the bank whereon I stood. 
I found one nest, a loose fabric of grasses and sedges, on the 
ground amongst tufts of Carex frigida and C. fuliginosa. It 
