GREY PHALAROPE 213 
There is probably little difference between the numbers 
of this bird in summer and winter. It occasionally appears 
in the migration reports (once, in April, at the Chickens). 
The Oyster-catcher is common all round the Irish coast ; 
on the east its breeding places are few, but become more 
plentiful from Down northwards; it nests on many rocky 
islets, as the Copelands. - It is abundant on the Solway and 
the bays and estuaries of Galloway, breeds in many places 
there and on the Cumberland and Lancashire coasts, and 
commonly on the coasts and isles of Carnarvon. It is a 
conspicuous breeding species in the Scottish isles, 
PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (Uinn.). 
GREY PHALAROPE. 
Mr. Kermode records a specimen in the Orrisdale collec- 
tion which was shot near that place 12th December 1860. 
In November 1891 another was found on the railway 
line near Union Mills, which was supposed to have been 
killed by striking the telegraph wires. Many specimens 
were about this time obtained in Ireland, and some in 
Cumberland. 
Mr. Kermode has a specimen shot at Port Lewaigue in 
September 1892. : 
In November 1894 Mr. E. Turner obtained one on 
Langness, and in December 1898, a second on a pool of 
brackish water under the old farmhouse on the same 
promontory. 
Of one hundred and six recorded occurrences in Ireland, 
Down and Antrim have furnished thirty-one. It has not 
infrequently occurred in Kirkcudbrightshire, but is very 
