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on their southward journey in autumn, when they 

 stay some time ; and on their northward journey 

 in spring", when they are only with us a few weeks. 

 Mr. W. H. Hudson says: "The Sanderhng is circum- 

 polar in its distribution, and breeds further north 

 than most of the Arctic species." It is not necessary 

 to say anything- about nesting-habit as the bird does 

 not breed in our islands. 



The Ringed Plover. 



Order, LiinicolcB. Family, Chai'ad^nidcs. 



So far as my own observations obtain in regard 

 to the distribution of this particular species, I must 

 say that I have found it in all suitable localities — 

 on the seacoast, estuaries, and Scotch lochs situated 

 not far from the sea. The two specimens in the 

 case, as far as my memory serves me, were shot on 

 the shores of a loch about four miles distant from 

 Loch Boisdale, in South Uist, and only about half a 

 mile from some magnificent sand strands on the 

 Atlantic. There are apparently — according to that 

 indisputable authority, Howard Saunders — a resident 

 and a migrrant race. The former "are larger and 

 more bullet-headed, and duller in the colour of the 

 mantle than those which come from the south in the 

 spring and leave us after a short stay, of which a 

 few, perhaps, remain to breed in Kent and Sussex." 

 The same author says : "The nest is usually a mere 

 shallow cavity in the sand, sometimes lined with 



