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Befides thefe two birds, Dr. Latham defcribes a third kind from 

 the Bankfian colleflion, found far northward between Afia and 

 Africa, the particulars of which appear in the fifth volume of the 

 Synopfis, and a figure of it in the frontifpiece of that volume. This 

 he defcribes as a variety of the Red Phalarope (fern) in the Synopfis, 

 and the fame opinion is retained in his fubfequent work (Ind. Orn.) 

 it is this variety which accords more nearly with the bird before us 

 than any that has been defcribed to that period. 



We have been long in polTeffion of this bird in our own colle6lion 

 of Britifh birds, and have given it fufEcient publicity ; neverthelefs 

 it was confidered among coliedlors as a new bird. In the year 1807, 

 a communication appeared in the eighth volume of ihe Tranfa6lions 

 of the Linnaean Society, from the pen of Mr. Simmonds, F.L.S. and 

 in this paper, befides other ufeful information, will be found a general 

 defcription of the fame variety, 



Mr. Simmonds conceiving it might be fpecifically different from 

 the variety of Dr. Latham's lad defcribed, propofed to give it the 

 name Phalaropus \\^illiamfii, in compliment to his friend Mr. J. Wil- 

 liams of Djrtford : to this there could be no obje61ion, excepting 

 only that it does not appear to be diftin61:, and w^ould therefore only 

 create confufion fhould it be defcribed under any other than its ori- 

 ginal denomination. Thefe birds were found at the edge of two or 

 three frefti water lakes in Sanda and North Ronalflia, the two moft 

 northern of the Orkney iflands: in the ftomachs of feveral were 

 found the remains of Monoculi and Onifci. We poffefs the egg 

 which Mr, Simmonds feems to be unacquainted with, as he expreffes 



his 



