KENTISH PLOVER. 577 



I have had opportunities of examining the last four men- 

 tioned examples in the collections of their respective owners. 



The latest occurrences took place on 12th September 1891, 

 when two in immature plumage were killed at Cayton Bay, 

 near Scarborough, as I am informed by Mr. W. J. Clarke of 

 that town. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 



Charadrius pluvialis (Z.). 



Resident, breeds on the fells of the west and north-west, also 

 sparingly in the south-west, and commonly on the Cleveland moors. 

 A great influx of migrants takes place in autumn and winter, when 

 the species is more generally distributed. A few remain on the coast 

 until late in May. 



The first mention of this, as a Yorkshire bird, is in the 

 ordinances as to the price of victuals in the city of York 

 in the year 1393, i6th Richard II., when, by a Royal proclama- 

 tion, the value of a Plover was fixed at id. Another early 

 allusion to it is at the feast given to Archbishop Nevell in 1466, 

 when the provision included " Plovers IIII. C." It is also 

 referred to in a quaintly worded entry in the Northumberland 

 Household Book, in the year 1512, in connection with Earl 

 Percy's regulations at his Yorkshire Castles, which informs 

 us that it was " thought good that no pluvers be bought at 

 noo Season bot oonely at Chryst5mmas and Princypall Feestes 

 and my Lorde to be servyde therewith and his Boordend and 

 non other and to be boght at jd. a pece or jd. ob (i|d.) at 

 moste." And in the list of expenses of Sir John Neville 

 High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1526 and 1528, Plovers are 

 referred to ; as also in the prices of provisions at Hull in 1560, 

 where we find " Plover, ijd." 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote of it as follows : — 



Charadrius pluvialis. — Golden Plover — Occasionally seen at Whin 

 Moor, near Leeds ; in the neighbourhood of Halifax it breeds sparingly 

 on the High Moors ; common about Sheffield ; common on the moors 

 about Malham where it breeds, and remains the year round ; also 



