132 L0BIFEDID,E. 



GRALLATORES. LOBIPEDID/E. 



PLATE CCXII. 



RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREA, 



The Red-necked Phalarope is occasionally met with 

 in England, but according to several accounts these birds 

 are more plentiful in the north of Scotland and the Ork- 

 neys, where they also breed. The present species is more 

 generally and plentifully met with in the higher northern 

 latitudes, as its trivial name implies, and belongs in fact 

 to the north and north-eastern parts of Europe, the north 

 of Asia, and North America. In Iceland, Greenland, 

 and Lapland, this bird is very common, from whence 

 it retires on the approach of the more inclement seasons 

 to the coast of Scotland, the northern lakes of Russia, 

 the Baltic, and occasionally to Holland, France, and Ger- 

 many. 



The localities it frequents in general are the sea-coast 

 and the smaller islands or lakes, but inland rivers, ponds, 

 or swampy places have not been named in a single in- 

 stance as situations where it has been obtained or even 

 seen. On the open sea, many miles from the land, many 

 instances are on record of its having been noticed ; it has 

 there invariably been seen constantly employed in dipping 



