BIRDS OF KOLGUEV 433 
SCOLOPACID/ 
Phalaropus fulicarius (LINN.). Grey Phalarope. 
Plavunchik-plosconosey (R.). 
I saw but a single pair of these birds, near the Kriva on June 16. 
P. hyperboreus LINN. Red-necked Phalarope. 
Plavunchik-cruglonosey (R.). 
This was a very familiar bird on Kolguev, and was generally dis- 
tributed. Every little lake in which there was any vegetation held its 
one, two, or three pairs. The lobing of the feet was well-marked 
in even the tiniest young which Hyland found on July 12. The 
stomachs of some we examined on June 16 were filled with larvee 
of the musquito. The following from my diary of July 12 is worth 
quoting. ‘A little stint which I moved to-day kicked her tiny young 
ones away. The action was so evidently intentional that I spent some 
half-an-hour in experimenting the point. Six times I let her settle 
down to brood them, and six times I moved her, and always she did 
the same. Once she kicked only one away, four times she kicked 
two, and once three—one a few inches to the side of the spot, and 
two a long foot on either side behind her. The little ones instantane- 
ously recovered themselves, for sometimes they were lying on their 
backs, and squatted absolutely still. Then on returning she would 
brood first one and then another, until she had called them all together 
again. When Hyland joined me I was on the point of mentioning 
this to him when he said, talking of a red-necked phalarope’s young 
which he had found, “That old phalarope got off in such a hurry that 
she knocked two of the young ones right head over heels.”’ 
I had been struck last year when in Norfolk by exactly the 
same action on the part of a ringed plover. My note made at the 
time, after describing the case, adds: ‘It could not be clumsiness, 
because these birds are exceedingly careful when moving off their 
eggs. Gallinaceous birds and ducks, when disturbed and starting 
suddenly off, are very apt to jerk an egg or two out of the nest— 
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