376 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



In Captain Boyd Alexander's notes from Komney Marsh, 

 1896, he states that " several Grey Plover, with black 

 breasts, v^ere also obtained on May 10, and individuals 

 of this species continued to arrive on and off up to 

 June 13, when I saw two of them in company with a 

 Knot on the Midrips. (These are a series of shallow 

 ponds on the * Lydd Beach.') By the next day, how- 

 ever, all three had disappeared. On May 22 a flock of 

 six passed over my head. They were making in a 

 northerly direction." 



Genus ^GIALITIS, Boie. 



KENTISH PLOYEE. 



^gialitis cantiana (Latham). Supp. ii., Gen. 

 Synopsis, p. Ixvi. (1801). 



Dr. Latham was the first to describe and name this 

 pretty Plover {Charadrius cantiana), from examples 

 received from Dr. Boys, who had procured them at Sand- 

 wich, in Kent, in 1787 and 1791. Boys included this 

 same species in his list of Kentish birds obtained at 

 Sandwich, 1792, under the name of Alexandrine Plover. 

 The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, says 

 it is " common in Komney Marsh, where it breeds." 

 Specimens of this bird in all stages, from adult to young 

 and eggs, are to be found in nearly all our museums and 

 private collections, and to enumerate the whole would 

 form an excellent catalogue. 



In the Zoologist, 1880, the Rev. H. A. Dombrain, 

 writing on the Habits of the Kentish Plover, says : 

 " About the middle of April the Kentish Plover arrives 

 in this country, and as its principal breeding places 



