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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
227. Phalaropus fiilicarius. Grey Phalarope. 
An occasional visitor, usually during the autumn migra- 
tion. 
The author of the " Birds of Surrey " mentions a 
specimen which " dropped into a farmyard puddle," and 
remained for a week or two at Mr. Thresher's, at Bentley, 
near Alton, in the autumn of 1825. 
Colonel Hawker shot one near Keyhaven on September 
26th, 1839, another at Longparish on October 15th, 1846, 
and a third on the following day. He considered them 
rare birds. ^ 
Bury shot one in the Isle of Wight early in September, 
1857.2 A most remarkable invasion of this species took 
place in the autumn of 1 866, of which the history has been 
written by Mr. J. H. Gurney.^ The birds appeared in 
various parts of England, particularly in the south, and 
nearly a hundred specimens were observed or killed in 
Hampshire alone, reaching from Aldershot and Bishopstoke 
to Christchurch and Andover, and to all parts of the Isle 
of Wight. 
It was, presumably, a survivor of this immigration 
which was obtained at Selborne in the following May, 
and is now in the Alton Museum. 
The Winchester College Museum contains specimens 
procured at King's Worthy and St. Cross in 1883. 
Mr. Hart has numerous specimens in his collection, 
and mentions 1886 and 1891 as marked by large immigra- 
tions. 
^ " Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker.'" 
More. i860. 
3 " The Grey Phalarope in Great Britain during the autumn of 1866." 
