270 RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 
larope of British writers. — This small species, 
typical of the second form, possesses most of the 
habits of the last, swimming' with facility ; it is 
also, according to Audubon, gregarious in winter, 
and is found in large flocks, far from land, on the 
banks of sea-weed. It breeds near to the water’s 
edge, but in wet places or marshes, on some tuft 
or hillock of herbage. It has been occasionally 
procured in the English counties as far north as 
Northumberland, but not nearly so frequently as 
the last ; and although it is said to be more com- 
monly found in Scotland, we have never met with 
a freshly killed specimen. It is known, however, 
to be tolerably frequent, and to breed on several 
of the Orkney Islands, particularly Sanda and 
North Ronaldshaw. 
We borrow Mr. Selby’s description of the dif- 
ferent states, and add that of a specimen procured 
for us by one of the whale ships, and taken, so far 
as we could learn, on the island of Disco. “ Crown 
of the head, nape, and hinder part of the neck, 
sides of the breast, and streak behind the eyes, 
ash-grey ; sides of the neck marked with an irre- 
gular patch of orange-brown ; throat, middle of 
the breast, and all the under parts, white, except 
the flanks, which are dashed with ash-grey ; back 
and scapulars black, the feathers deeply margined 
with ash-grey and reddish-brown ; wing-coverts 
blackish-grey, the greater ones terminated with 
white, and forming a bar across the wings ; the 
two middle feathers black, the rest deep ash-grey, 
