368 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



The first mentioned is that one was killed at Chatham, 

 in Kent, in January, 1834. 



Two specimens were obtained by Dr. F. Plomley in 

 Eomney Marsh, according to the Eev. J. Pemberton 

 Bartlett, in his Ornitliology of Kent, 1844, so that these 

 birds were obtained before that date. One is now in the 

 Dover Museum. The Eev. C. H. Fielding, in his Hand- 

 hook of Higham, 1882, adds the Little Bustard to that 

 locality, and says : " Communicated by a friend who 

 claimed to have shot one a few years ago." 



Mr. G. Dowker, in his Birds of East Kent, 1889, says : 

 " But few specimens of this rare bird are recorded from 

 our district ; one, now in the Eev. B. Austen's collection, 

 was killed some years ago, in St. Nicholas Marshes." 



Family (EDICNEMID^. 



Genus (EDICNEMUS, Temmiiick. 



STONE-CUELEW. 



(Edicnemiis ceclicnemus (Linnaeus) ; S.N., i., p. 255 



(1766). 



Norfolk Plover ; Thick-knee. Night-Hawk. 



The Stone-Curlew is now an almost unknown bird in 

 Kent, the persecution which it has undergone, the destruc- 

 tion and robbery of its eggs, have driven it away from 

 this county. 



Boys adds it to the Birds of Sandivich, 1792. The 

 Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1844, states that it 

 "breeds on the shingle in Eomney Marsh." Mr. G. 

 Bensted obtained it at Ulcombe, in Kent, and the 

 specimen is now in his collection. Mr. E. T. Filmer 



