382 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linnaeus). 
Has occurred twice. 
A female Red-necked Phalarope was shot on September 
6th, 1907, while swimming close to the shore at Powfoot 
(Cummertrees). This bird is now in the collection of 
Mr. R. Service, who writes : " This is the first local 
specimen I have handled. It seems strange that while 
the Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus hyperboreus) 
breeds at points to north and west of Solway in 
Scotland, we should practically never see it here, while the 
Grey Phalarope breeding a thousand miles farther away 
should occur here with comparative frequency."* William 
Hastings, the taxidermist of Dumfries, told Mr. Service 
that about 1865 he was sent a Red-necked Phalarope, which 
had been obtained on the Caerlaverock shore, and that 
this was the only specimen he had ever received. 
This species, like the preceding, is a circumpolar bird, 
but its breeding-range extends further to the south. 
Formerly it nested in considerable numbers in the Shetlands, 
Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, as well as on the north-west 
mainland of Scotland. The Red-necked Phalarope, however, 
has been banished from many of its nesting-haunts ; but in 
the north-west of Ireland, and in those places where it 
has been protected, it still breeds. At these few favoured 
localities it arrives late in May, and departs again in 
early August. 
In winter, it visits the Black Sea district and some waters 
of central Europe, occurring irregularly on both sides of 
the Mediterranean, though rarely in south-western Europe. 
Its migration in the Old World may be said to extend to 
the Indo-Malayan region, China and Japan; while in the 
* Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, p. 120. 
