RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 
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were about the size of a titlark s, but much deeper. They 
had but just commenced laying, June 13th, as we only 
found from one to two eggs in each nest/' Mr. G. C. 
Atkinson found the Red-necked Phalarope breeding 
abundantly on the margins of the lakes in Iceland. The 
eggs are four in number, and vary but slightly. 
Mr. Wolley says: “The few nests I have seen have 
been in little grassy islets, in shallow, boggy lakes or 
ponds. The bird is extremely tame, swimming about me 
in my India-rubber boat so near that I could almost 
catch it in my hand. I have seen it even, when far from 
its nest, struck at man}’' times, with an oar, before it flew 
away. The nest is in moss, or in a tuft of grass, close to 
the water edge, or sometimes a few feet away. In the 
Feroe islands, it is found at a cluster of ponds in one of 
the largest of them. Here in Lapland, it breeds only far 
up the country, and sparingly." 
