50 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS, 



it is said to be very common*; not so in Ireland, 

 where Mr. Thompson, speaking of the comparative 

 numbers of this species and the Dunlin, saysf , " In 

 Belfast and Strangford Loughs there are fully two 

 thousand Dunlins to a single Sanderling; and on the 

 coast of Ireland generally there may probably be one 

 thousand of the former to each individual of the 

 latter species." In ' The Field ' of June 24th, 1871, 

 vpUI be found a note by Dr. Bree on the supposed 

 nesting of the Sanderling in Ireland. 



GEEY PHALAEOPE. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). 



An annual autumn migrant. No instance of its 

 occurring in England in the red plumage peculiar to 

 the breeding-season is known to me, although it oc- 

 casionally happens that specimens obtained here in 

 autumn have a very few of the red feathers still 

 showing through the winter dress. 



EBD-KECKED PHALAEOPE. Pholaropus hyperborem 

 (Linnseus). 



Breeds in Perthshire, Inverness, Sutherland, and 

 the Hebrides, formerly also in Orkney. It is an oc- 

 casional winter visitant to England, and is unknown 

 in Ireland. 



WOODCOCK. Scolqpcuc rusticola, Linnseus. 



A regular winter visitant ; but many pairs annually 

 remain to nest in suitable locaHties, 



* Gray, 'Birds of the West of Scotland,' p. 261. 

 t Nat. Hist. Ireland (Birds), voL ii. p. 122. 



