. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . exceedinglygood swimmers, and according toChapman, the noted ornithologist,while feeding, whirling about in theshallow water to stir up the minuteinsects from the bottom, and seizingthem as they are swept about in thelittle whirlpool thus created. The females are larger and morebrightly colored than the males. Theydo the courting and turn over theduties of incubation to the male.—Inthis instance they reverse the usualorder. To our knowledge the Red Phala-rope has in our locality been seen byJames Savage October 1892, October1896,
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . exceedinglygood swimmers, and according toChapman, the noted ornithologist,while feeding, whirling about in theshallow water to stir up the minuteinsects from the bottom, and seizingthem as they are swept about in thelittle whirlpool thus created. The females are larger and morebrightly colored than the males. Theydo the courting and turn over theduties of incubation to the male.—Inthis instance they reverse the usualorder. To our knowledge the Red Phala-rope has in our locality been seen byJames Savage October 1892, October1896, November 1897 and September1904. The Northern or Rednecked Phala-rope breeds in high latitudes and mi-grates southward in winter to temper-ate and tropical regions. It is ourcommonest Phalarope and has beenobserved by James Savage in October1889 and September 1894. The Wilson Phaladope has beenmentioned as being very rare nearnear Buffalo by De Kay in 1844 andby Rev. J. Hibbert Langille in OurBirds and Their Haunts in 1884. All the Phalaropes have beautiful. Phalaropes THB OOLOQIST ^^ (Co), K>7 101 bright plumage, and are contrary tothe habits of the Snipe family, expertswimmers on account of their lobedfeet. The nest is a slight hollow in theground lined with grass and from three to four, greenish oryellowish-ashy, thickly blotched withvarying shades of brown; sizes rangefrom to long by 75 to 82broad, but there is a great variationin size, shape and color. I have in my collection the eggs ofall three species, but only the eggs ofthe Northern and Red Phalarope fromIceland . Ottomar Reinecke. H. W. FLINT Harry W. Flint, one of the realprinces of North American ornithologydeparted this life at his home in NewHaven, Connecticut April 5, 1917. Mr. Flint was one of the most wide-ly known collectors of North Ameri-can birds eggs, and had one of themost desirable accumulations of choicespecimens of North American birdseggs in existence. In his earlier lifeh
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