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neck, chin, throat, and all beneath, white ; anterior portions 

 of the head, patch behind the eye, back of neck and all the 

 upper plumage, dark slate and grey, lightest towards the 

 rump, each feather more or less marked with white ; wings, 

 dark cinereous; great wing coverts, broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a conspicuous bar across the wings. Bill, 

 black and lancet-shaped at the point. May not this bird 

 have stunned itself against the lighthouse during a noctur- 

 nal flight, and dropped into Riddles Bay below ? 



This is a further addition to the Ornithology of these 

 islands. 



Saw another specimen of the Herring Gull, which 

 was shot on the 18th by Lieutenant Montgomery, 42nd 

 Highlanders. 



March 22nd, 1848. — Mr. E. Jones brought me a speci- 

 men of the grey Phalarope (Lobipes hyperboreus), which had 

 been recently killed. It was met with at the head of Hamil- 

 ton Water, by Mr. Frederick Trimingham, who paddled 

 after it in a small boat (for it was swimming at the time), 

 and succeeding in killing it with a blow from a stick. It 

 bore no appearance of having been wounded. 



This beautiful little bird measured eight and a quarter 

 inches in length, and appeared similar in plumage to the 

 specimen picked up in Riddles Bay on the 20th instant, 

 excepting that on each side of the neck, and front or 

 upper part of the breast, it was mottled with numerous 

 spots of a cinnamon colour, and the base of the bill was 

 yellow below. The feet were beautifully and deeply 

 lobed, the toes connected by a membrane. 



(Bewick, in speaking of the Grey Phalarope says : " The 

 scolloped membranes on its toes differ from those of the 

 Red Phalarope in being finely serrated on their edges.") 



