. An illustrated manual of British birds . y the birds whilst swimming buoyantly on thewaves, sometimes hundreds of miles from land. The note is asharp tweet, but the female sometimes utters a low dink, dink. The female, which is larger and handsomer than the male, has—in breeding time—the beak orange-yellow; base of bill and crownblackish ; cheeks distinctly white ; under parts reddish-chestnut;feathers of the mantle nearly black, with broad rufous margins ;wing-coverts lead-grey tipped with white; legs, feet and lobed mem-branes yellow. This stage is shown by the bird in the
. An illustrated manual of British birds . y the birds whilst swimming buoyantly on thewaves, sometimes hundreds of miles from land. The note is asharp tweet, but the female sometimes utters a low dink, dink. The female, which is larger and handsomer than the male, has—in breeding time—the beak orange-yellow; base of bill and crownblackish ; cheeks distinctly white ; under parts reddish-chestnut;feathers of the mantle nearly black, with broad rufous margins ;wing-coverts lead-grey tipped with white; legs, feet and lobed mem-branes yellow. This stage is shown by the bird in the 8*25 in. ; wing 475 in. The male is duller, and has thewhite on the cheeks less defined. In autumn the chestnut graduallydisappears; by winter the under surface has become pure white,the back pearl-grey, and the once rufous margins are white, thebill is black, the forehead white, and a black streak runs backwardsfrom the eye ; the bird in the foreground is in this stage. Theyoung resemble the adults in autumn plumage. SCOLOPACID.«.. THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Phalaropus hyperp.()Reus (Linnceus). The visits of the Red-necked Phalarope to England are evenmore irregular than those of the preceding species, and althoughthe bird has become more frequent in Norfolk since 1870, it is atall times less numerically abundant, and seldom wanders far inland ;its occurrence being chiefly on the autumn migration. Along theeast side of Scotland it is decidedly rare, nor is it at all common onthe west; although a few pairs—the remnant of many^—still nest inthe Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities which areprotected from—or undiscovered by—the trading collector. Thearrival from the south takes place in the latter part of May, and byAugust both old and young have departed. In Ireland, strange tosay, the bird has not yet been observed ; and altogether the mannerin which it avoids the greater part of the British Islands on itspassage to and from its summer haunts is so
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