CHARADRIID&. 567 
THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Linnzeus). 
A few pairs of this graceful species—the remnant of many—still 
nest in the Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities 
which are protected from or undiscovered by the trading collector, 
and these birds arrive from the south in the latter part of May ; 
while by August both old and young have departed. Along the east 
side of Scotland, however, this Phalarope is decidedly rare, and it 
is uncommon on migration in the west. To England its visits, even 
in autumn, are very irregular, though recorded, especially since 1870, 
in Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, some 
of the midland and most of the southern counties, occasionally in 
Wales, and exceptionally along the north-west coast. Occurrences 
in spring are unusual, and altogether the avoidance by this species of 
the greater part of the British Islands on its passage to and from its 
summer haunts is somewhat remarkable. In Ireland a bird was 
shot in co. Armagh, about November 13th 1891. 
The Red-necked Phalarope breeds plentifully in the south of Green- 
land, Iceland, the Feeroes, and above the forest-growth on the Dovre- 
fjeld in Scandinavia as well as in the north, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia 
up to lat. 73° as far east as Kamchatka, and on the high ground by 
the Sea of Okhotsk. In Alaska and throughout the Arctic regions of 
America it is very abundant, and there again it nests by some of the 
lakes in the mountain ranges, as well as on the flat coast ; while in 
winter or on passage it has been found down to the Bermudas and 
Guatemala. In the Old World its migrations extend to the Indo- 
