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they migrate southwards in the winter. They 

 do not associate with their congeners, the ringed 

 plovers, but are generally observed either alone or 

 in pairs. I have never been able to discover it 

 westward of Brighton, but Mr. Gould says that it 

 has been killed at Selsey, near Pagham. In the 

 museum of the Mechanics' Institute at Hastings 

 are several specimens, adult and immature, which 

 have been procured in that neighbourhood. 



[In May, 1853, Mr. Biggs, of Worthing, shot 

 two, and a third in the following September. A 

 pair were also killed by Mr. Ward during the 

 same month. All these examples were met with 

 between Shoreham and Worthing. — 8rd edition.] 



Little Ringed Plovee, Gharadrius minor. 

 Has been obtained on two or three occasions in 

 Sussex. The specimen from which Mr. Gould 

 took his description was killed at Shoreham, and 

 there is another in Mr. W. Borrer's collection 

 which was shot in the spme neighbourhood dur- 

 ing the month of May. 



[Three adult and tw^o immature examples of 

 the little ringed plover (or dotterel) were killed 

 near Shoreham, in September, 1853. — 3rd edit.] 



Grey Plover, Squatarola cinerca. A winter 

 visitor of by no means ordinary occurrence, ex- 

 cept during severe weather. Specimens killed in 

 this county generally present the usual grey plu- 



