. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 567. THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Phalaropus hyperb6reus (Linnaeus). A few pairs of this graceful species^the remnant of many—still nest in the Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities which are protected from or undiscovered by the trading collector, and these birds arrive from the south in the latter part of May; while by August both old and young have departed. Along the east side of Scotland, how^ever, this Phalarope is decidedly rare, and it is uncommon on migration in the west. To England its visits, even in autumn, a
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 567. THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Phalaropus hyperb6reus (Linnaeus). A few pairs of this graceful species^the remnant of many—still nest in the Shetlands, Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, in localities which are protected from or undiscovered by the trading collector, and these birds arrive from the south in the latter part of May; while by August both old and young have departed. Along the east side of Scotland, how^ever, this Phalarope is decidedly rare, and it is uncommon on migration in the west. To England its visits, even in autumn, are very irregular, though recorded, especially since 1870, in Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, some of the midland and most of the southern counties, occasionally in Wales, and exceptionally along the north-west coast. Occurrences in spring are unusual, and altogether the avoidance by this species of the greater part of the British Islands on its passage to and from its summer haunts is somewhat remarkable. In Ireland a bird was shot in CO. Armagh, about November 13th 1891. The Red-necked Phalarope breeds plentifully in the south of Green- land, Iceland, the Faeroes, and above the forest-growth on the Dovre- fjeld in Scandinavia as well as in the north, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia up to lat. 73° as far east as Kamchatka, and on the high ground by the Sea of Okhotsk. In Alaska and throughout the Arctic regions of America it is very abundant, and there again it nests by some of the lakes in the mountain ranges, as well as on the flat coast; while in winter or on passage it has been found down to the Bermudas and Guatemala. In the Old World its migrations extend to the Indo-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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