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GREY PHALAEOPE. 



PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS {Linn.) 



Tringa fulicaria, Linn. S. N. i. p. 249 (1766). 

 Phalaropus platyrliynchus, Naum. viii. p. 255. 

 Phalaropus lobatus, Macg. iv. p. 284; Hewitson, ii. p. 368. 

 Phalaropus fulicarius, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 310 ; Dresser, vii. 

 p. 605. 



Phalarope dentele, French. 



Although this beautiful and very interesting species 

 occasionally visits our Islands in large numbers, my 

 acquaintance with it in life is confined to having seen 

 two on the north coast of Spain in the winter of 1878 — 

 one on the mud-flats of the harbour of Santander ; the 

 other, swimming almost under the bows of my yacht, in 

 the Bay of Biscay, at about five miles off Rivadesella. 

 With very few exceptions the recorded occurrences of 

 the Grey Phalarope to our country have taken place in 

 the autumn and winter, in the grey dress of that season, 

 but I find a record in ' Yarrell 'of "a beautifully 

 marked adult bird, which was killed in Wiltshire in 

 August, and retained at that time a great portion of the 

 true red colours of the breeding-season or summer 

 plumage." The visits of this species to our Islands 



