204 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Forth, as they have been heard on calm nights crj-ing as'thej^ 

 passed over from W. to E., or from points N. of W. to points S. 

 of E. ; and da3'-flights have often been observed passing h^re 

 from N.N.W. towards S.S.E., or from N.W. to S.W. I would 

 instance here Brainblings, Fringilla montif ring ilia, natives of 

 Northern Europe. (See Gray's ' Birds of the West of Scotland,' 

 p. 137. The "colmnn" of Bramblings there described as on 

 migration were not ''proceeding in a north-easterly direction," 

 however, as stated by Mr. Gray, but were coming from a north- 

 westerly direction, and were proceeding in a south-easterly 

 direction.) 



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NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE BRITISH 



POLAR EXPEDITION, 1875-6. 



By Henry Chichester Hart, 

 Naturalist on Board H.M.S. ' Discover}'.' 



(Continued from p. 129.) 



Sanderlixg. — Calidris arenaria. — On the 10th August, 1875, 

 I saw six or seven Sanderlings near AValrus Island, in lat. 70° 25'. 

 In Discovery Bay they were very rare. On the 1st June, on the 

 27th July, and on the 12th August, 187 6, single specimens were 

 seen. On August 22nd I saw a few in Rawlings Bay, lat. 80° 22'; 

 and on the 7th September I saw a few in the same locality, as 

 on the 10th of the previous August. I was not able to obtain 

 a nest of this species, though m}^ colleague, Capt. Feilden, found 

 one on June 21th, in lat. 82" 33' N. (' Ibis,' 1877, p. 406). Dr. Cop- 

 pinger thought Sanderlings were common, and breeding, in Polaris 

 Bay. 



Red-necked Phalarope, Phalarojms hypevhoreus. — Upon the 

 9th and 10th July I saw several pairs of this Phalarope at Blase 

 Dalen Lake in Disco. They were breeding amongst sedges on 

 its shores in company with the Lapland Bunting and the Long- 

 tailed Duck. I watched them for some time ; they are extremely 

 graceful in their movements upon the water, and while swimming 

 about in search of minute aquatic insects were quite fearless, 

 coming to within a foot or two of the bank whereon I stood. 

 I found one nest, a loose fabric of grasses and sedges, on the 

 ground amongst tufts of Carex frigida and C fuliginosa. It 



