374 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Museum, said to have been obtained at Westbrook, 

 near Margate, in Kent, November, 1849.' " 



Mr. H. J. Harding, writing to the Zoologist, 1866, p. 

 524, says : Deal, October 10, 1866 : "A specimen of this 

 very rare bird was shot near Sandwich by a man who 

 knew nothing about its rarity, and allowed it to spoil ; 

 when it got into my hands it was nearly rotten." 



Genus CHARADRIUS, Linna?us. 



GOLDEN PLOVEE. 



Charadrius yluvialis, Linnaeus. *S'.iV., i., p. 254 

 (1766). 



The Golden Plover is only a winter visitor to Kent, 

 coming in October or November, according to the severity 

 of the season. Some remain on the higher heaths and 

 commons or marshes during the winter, leaving about 

 March or April for the north. Most of them go further 

 south, therefore few are obtained in the county. 



Boys adds it to the Birds of Sandivich, 179'2, and the 

 Kev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, states that 

 the Golden Plover is "common." Mr. F. D. Power, in 

 his notes on the birds of Kainham in 1868, says : "I 

 met with a small flock in a neighbouring marsh on 

 October 7. This is an early appearance for them in this 

 district." 



There are two males, obtained at Linton on March 11 

 and 14, 1888, by Mr. H. Kennard, now in the Maidstone 

 Museum. 



It has been found in the Orlestone district. East Kent. 

 Being an upland bird, it is more often found in the large 

 open pastures on the hills. 



