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SCOLOPACID^E. 
tioii. In fact, the little monkeys sometimes turn the tables 
upon you altogether, for you can't shoot a bird when it is 
pleased to see you. 
A few pairs remain during the breeding season both near 
the marshes and upon the hills. I have never found the nest 
myself, but eggs have been brought me from the haunts of the 
birds exactly resembling authentic specimens of the egg 
of the Purple Sandpiper; they are longer than those of the 
Dunlin, and considerably broader, but very similarly coloured. 
Early in August I have shot first year’s birds upon the shore. 
The adult has the tarsi, feet, and basal half of the bill light 
orange yellow, tinged with ochre, the other half of the biU deep 
brown, gradually becoming black at the point ; in the breeding 
season those parts are more brightly coloured, but in birds 
under a year old they are of a much dingier hue, and tinged 
with green. 
THE GEEY PHALAEOPE. 
Phalaropus hiatus. 
It is only in autumn that we meet with this Phalarope in 
Shetland, and even then but seldom. Probably on account of 
its usually arriving in stormy weather, it shows but little 
partiality for the sea, seeming to prefer large burns running 
over a pebbly bed, or those shallow pools of water so often met 
with in the hollows of the hills. I once killed two out of three, 
but that was the only occasion upon which I have seen more 
than one at a time. 
THE EED-NECKED PHALAEOPE. 
Phalaropus hyperloreus. 
Having read Thomas Edmondston’s contradiction of his former 
statement that the Eed-Necked Phalarope was a rare winter 
visitant to these islands, and being unable to obtain an authentic 
account of its appearance upon any one occasion, some years 
